jacobite
\ʒa.ko.bit\
The verdict
“jacobite” is uncommon French (frequency #98,119 among 957 “J” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,119
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Royaliste britannique resté fidèle à Jacques II et à ses successeurs.
Corpus desk
Index FR-jacobite · jacobite · French
jacobite · rank #98,119 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,119
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH jaber
Nearest frequency peer: jaber (-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 « jacobite »
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 « jacobite » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jacobite |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒa.ko.bit\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #98,119 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « jacobite » en français
Rare enough to double-check
jacobite is uncommon French at frequency #98,119 among 957 “J” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʒa.ko.bit\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Royaliste britannique resté fidèle à Jacques II et à ses successeurs.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for jacobite, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is jacobite, spelled J-A-C-O-B-I-T-E.
Definition
- 1Royaliste britannique resté fidèle à Jacques II et à ses successeurs.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how jacobite appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Son destin fut différent de celui des deux autres cofondateurs de la Loge de Saint-Thomas, parce que, esprit réaliste, il n’était pas un jacobite outré et, de plus, il était trop francisé déjà pour nourrir des espérances que la réalité devait déméntir de la plus cruelle façon.
Il se dessina fantastiquement non pas le nommé Rifoël, mais un chevalier du Vissard, une jeune homme quasi semblable au Fergus de Walter Scott, enfin le jacobite français.
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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