J3
\ʒi.tʁwɑ\
The verdict
“J3” is an uncommon French word, ranked #58,039 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #58,039
- frequency rank, French
- 2
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Surnom donné aux adolescents en France à partir de 1943.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | J3 |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒi.tʁwɑ\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #58,039 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “J3” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for J3 is 2 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒi.tʁwɑ\. Corpus data places it at rank #58,039 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Surnom donné aux adolescents en France à partir de 1943.".
Zero misspellings are on record for J3 in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is J3, spelled J-3.
Definition
- 1Surnom donné aux adolescents en France à partir de 1943.
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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Using “J3”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is J-3 - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʒi.tʁwɑ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.