jacobin
\ʒa.kɔ.bɛ̃\
The verdict
“jacobin” is uncommon French (frequency #52,134 among 957 “J” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,134
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Moine ou moniale qui suit la règle de Saint-Dominique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-jacobin · jacobin · French
jacobin · rank #52,134 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,134
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH isolent
Nearest frequency peer: isolent (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « jacobin »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- irritée
irritée
47,871 corpus weight
- irrégulière…
irrégulièrement
47,870 corpus weight
- isolent
isolent
47,869 corpus weight
- jacobin
jacobin
47,867 corpus weight
- Jarod
Jarod
47,865 corpus weight
- jeunot
jeunot
47,864 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « jacobin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jacobin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒa.kɔ.bɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #52,134 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « jacobin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
jacobin is uncommon French at frequency #52,134 among 957 “J” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʒa.kɔ.bɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for jacobin, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is jacobin, spelled J-A-C-O-B-I-N.
Definition
- 1Moine ou moniale qui suit la règle de Saint-Dominique.
- 2Membre du groupement politique qui s’établit à Paris au début de la Révolution, dans l’ancien couvent des jacobins, et qui se signala plus tard par ses opinions révolutionnaires.
- 3Celui qui professe des opinions analogues à celles des anciens jacobins.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how jacobin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce que nous disons, Sire, n'est pas une hyperbole, ni un discours cérébrin ; nous l'avons vu, en l'année 1612, au chapitre général des jacobins.
Pourquoi M. de Carvalho, qui détestait les jésuites, laissait-il en repos les cordeliers, les jacobins et les récollets, sinon parce qu’il trouvait les jésuites en son chemin, et que les autres végétaient en paix dans leurs couvents sans faire à l’État ni bien ni mal ?
Synonyms
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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