ius
\ˈjuːs\
The verdict
“ius” is uncommon French (frequency #83,983 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,983
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de jus.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ius · ius · French
ius · rank #83,983 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,983
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH jaz
Nearest frequency peer: jaz (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « ius »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- invendable
invendable
16,023 corpus weight
- Ipanema
Ipanema
16,022 corpus weight
- Irano
Irano
16,021 corpus weight
- ius
ius
16,018 corpus weight
- jaz
jaz
16,017 corpus weight
- jumelages
jumelages
16,013 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ius » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ius |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈjuːs\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #83,983 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ius » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ius is uncommon French at frequency #83,983 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈjuːs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de jus.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for ius, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is ius, spelled I-U-S.
Definition
- 1Variante de jus.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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