jab
\dʒab\
The verdict
“jab” is uncommon French (frequency #70,757 among 957 “J” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,757
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sorte de coup de poing où le boxeur frappe son adversaire rapidement d’une courte distance.
Corpus desk
Index FR-jab · jab · French
jab · rank #70,757 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,757
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH iti
Nearest frequency peer: iti (-2 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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “jab”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- IPTV
IPTV
29,249 corpus weight
- irradiés
irradiés
29,248 corpus weight
- iti
iti
29,246 corpus weight
- jab
jab
29,244 corpus weight
- jain
jain
29,242 corpus weight
- Jenn
Jenn
29,240 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “jab” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jab |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dʒab\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #70,757 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “jab” se place dans la fréquence du français
Rare enough to double-check
jab is uncommon French at frequency #70,757 among 957 “J” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dʒab\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for jab in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is jab, spelled J-A-B.
Definition
- 1Sorte de coup de poing où le boxeur frappe son adversaire rapidement d’une courte distance.
- 2Argument massue.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how jab appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lecomte lui chasse le poignet d’un revers fulgurant et double d’un jab au creux de l’estomac.
Le jab gauche de Mbaye gênait considérablement le Canadien.
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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Data Source
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