Jacmel
\ʒɑk.mɛl\
The verdict
“Jacmel” is uncommon French (frequency #68,378 among 957 “J” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,378
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville d’Haïti, chef-lieu du département du Sud-Est.
Corpus desk
Index FR-jacmel · Jacmel · French
Jacmel · rank #68,378 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,378
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH jacquier
Nearest frequency peer: jacquier (+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 « Jacmel »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- inviterai
inviterai
31,627 corpus weight
- irrécupérab…
irrécupérables
31,626 corpus weight
- Jacmel
Jacmel
31,623 corpus weight
- jacquier
jacquier
31,622 corpus weight
- jail
jail
31,621 corpus weight
- janséniste
janséniste
31,620 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Jacmel » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Jacmel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʒɑk.mɛl\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #68,378 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Jacmel » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Jacmel is uncommon French at frequency #68,378 among 957 “J” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ʒɑk.mɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ville d’Haïti, chef-lieu du département du Sud-Est.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Jacmel, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Jacmel, spelled J-A-C-M-E-L.
Definition
- 1Ville d’Haïti, chef-lieu du département du Sud-Est.
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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