jeune
[ʒœn]
The verdict
“jeune” is uncommon German (frequency #84,154 among 699 “J” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,154
- frequency rank, German
- 699
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - jung, jugendlich
Corpus desk
Index DE-jeune · jeune · German
jeune · rank #84,154 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,154
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 699
- PHOTO-FINISH jeu
Nearest frequency peer: jeu (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „jeune“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- ITU
ITU
15,853 corpus weight
- Janna
Janna
15,852 corpus weight
- jaulen
jaulen
15,851 corpus weight
- Jethro
Jethro
15,849 corpus weight
- jeu
jeu
15,848 corpus weight
- jeune
jeune
15,847 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „jeune“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jeune |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ʒœn] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #84,154 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „jeune“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
jeune is uncommon German at frequency #84,154 among 699 “J” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ʒœn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "jung, jugendlich".
Zero misspellings are on record for jeune in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is jeune, spelled J-E-U-N-E.
Definition
- 1jung, jugendlich
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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