jabal

noun

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The verdict

“jabal” is uncommon French (frequency #86,833 among 957 “J” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#86,833
frequency rank, French
957
“J” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Calme.

Corpus desk

Index FR-jabal · jabal · French

jabal · rank #86,833 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #86,833
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 957
  • PHOTO-FINISH isérois

Nearest frequency peer: isérois (-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 « jabal »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « jabal » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for jabal
PropertyValue
Headwordjabal
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters5
Frequency rank#86,833
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « jabal » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).jabaltombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « isérois » (#86,832), « jalal » (#86,834), « Iseult » (#86,830). Parmi 957 lemmes en « J », « jabal » est au #86,833. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

jabal is uncommon French at frequency #86,833 among 957 “J” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Calme.".

No generated misspelling entries exist for jabal in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is jabal, spelled J-A-B-A-L.

Definition

  1. 1
    Calme.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how jabal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. ekaitzaren ondotik jabala dator, le calme après la tempête.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "jabal"?
"jabal" is spelled J-A-B-A-L.
What does "jabal" mean?
As a noun, "jabal" means: Calme.
What language does "jabal" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "jabal", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

jalal#86,834Jedis#86,837Keiji#86,849Kelso#86,850

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list