jaber
\dʒa.be\
The verdict
“jaber” is uncommon French (frequency #98,118 among 957 “J” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,118
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Frapper en faisant un jab.
Corpus desk
Index FR-jaber · jaber · French
jaber · rank #98,118 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,118
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH jacobite
Nearest frequency peer: jacobite (+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 « jaber »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- izard
izard
1,885 corpus weight
- jaber
jaber
1,883 corpus weight
- jacobite
jacobite
1,882 corpus weight
- Jahan
Jahan
1,881 corpus weight
- Jahrhunderts
Jahrhunderts
1,880 corpus weight
- Janowski
Janowski
1,879 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « jaber » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jaber |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \dʒa.be\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #98,118 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « jaber » en français
Rare enough to double-check
jaber is uncommon French at frequency #98,118 among 957 “J” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \dʒa.be\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Frapper en faisant un jab.".
jaber doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented 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 jaber, spelled J-A-B-E-R.
Definition
- 1Frapper en faisant un jab.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how jaber appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tu danses, tu jabes, tu danses, tu jabes et ça s’arrête là.
Je cherche des joueurs sur Xbox, avec un bon niveau, et surtout qui aiment la boxe (pas de mecs qui foutent toute leur XP dans un coup et qui spamment avec, ou les mecs qui jabent avec une allonge de 2m10 et se barrent en courant).
This word in other languages
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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