jacinthe
\ʒa.sɛ̃t\
The verdict
“jacinthe” is uncommon French (frequency #53,426 among 957 “J” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,426
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plante à bulbe, monocotylédone, cultivée pour sa fleur, appartenant aux genres Hyacinthus ou Hyacinthoides, famille des hyacinthacées (autrefois classée parmi les liliacées).
Corpus desk
Index FR-jacinthe · jacinthe · French
jacinthe · rank #53,426 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,426
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH Jacquie
Nearest frequency peer: Jacquie (+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 « jacinthe »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- isotherme
isotherme
46,579 corpus weight
- Italian
Italian
46,578 corpus weight
- jacinthe
jacinthe
46,575 corpus weight
- Jacquie
Jacquie
46,574 corpus weight
- jag
jag
46,573 corpus weight
- jaillissent
jaillissent
46,572 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « jacinthe » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jacinthe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒa.sɛ̃t\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #53,426 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « jacinthe » en français
Rare enough to double-check
jacinthe is uncommon French at frequency #53,426 among 957 “J” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʒa.sɛ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for jacinthe, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is jacinthe, spelled J-A-C-I-N-T-H-E.
Definition
- 1Plante à bulbe, monocotylédone, cultivée pour sa fleur, appartenant aux genres Hyacinthus ou Hyacinthoides, famille des hyacinthacées (autrefois classée parmi les liliacées).
- 2Variante de hyacinthe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how jacinthe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les savants s’occupèrent de tout dans une paix profonde, depuis la végétation anormale d’un ognon de jacinthe jusqu’aux courants électriques.
À chaque escale à Amsterdam, je filais au marché aux fleurs du Singel ou chez un vieil horticulteur de Schoorl pour lui rapporter des oignons de jonquilles, de jacinthes, de muscaris, d’amaryllis.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).