jaar
[jaːɾ]
The verdict
“jaar” is uncommon French (frequency #88,774 among 957 “J” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,774
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An, année.
Corpus desk
Index FR-jaar · jaar · French
jaar · rank #88,774 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,774
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH Jams
Nearest frequency peer: Jams (+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 « jaar »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- inusable
inusable
11,231 corpus weight
- inéluctables
inéluctables
11,230 corpus weight
- jaar
jaar
11,227 corpus weight
- Jams
Jams
11,226 corpus weight
- Jemeppe
Jemeppe
11,225 corpus weight
- Jemmapes
Jemmapes
11,224 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « jaar » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jaar |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [jaːɾ] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #88,774 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « jaar » en français
Rare enough to double-check
jaar is uncommon French at frequency #88,774 among 957 “J” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [jaːɾ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An, année.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for jaar, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is jaar, spelled J-A-A-R.
Definition
- 1An, année.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how jaar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sinds jaar en dag.
De vergadering wordt voorgezeten door het oudste lid in jaren.
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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