jacobus
\ʒa.kɔ.bys\
The verdict
“jacobus” is uncommon French (frequency #85,836 among 957 “J” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,836
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ancienne monnaie d’or d’Angleterre, frappée sous Jacques Ier d'Angleterre et valant environ une guinée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-jacobus · jacobus · French
jacobus · rank #85,836 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,836
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH jacking
Nearest frequency peer: jacking (-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 « jacobus »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Ircam
Ircam
14,169 corpus weight
- Isaure
Isaure
14,168 corpus weight
- itu
itu
14,167 corpus weight
- jacking
jacking
14,166 corpus weight
- jacobus
jacobus
14,165 corpus weight
- JDC
JDC
14,163 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « jacobus » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jacobus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒa.kɔ.bys\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #85,836 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « jacobus » en français
Rare enough to double-check
jacobus is uncommon French at frequency #85,836 among 957 “J” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʒa.kɔ.bys\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ancienne monnaie d’or d’Angleterre, frappée sous Jacques Ier d'Angleterre et valant environ une guinée.".
Zero misspellings are on record for jacobus in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is jacobus, spelled J-A-C-O-B-U-S.
Definition
- 1Ancienne monnaie d’or d’Angleterre, frappée sous Jacques Ier d'Angleterre et valant environ une guinée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how jacobus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pendant qu’ils parlaient ainsi tout bas, un chanoine très vieux faisait la quête et présentait un grand plat de cuivre aux assistants qui y laissaient tomber tour à tour d’anciennes monnaies qui n’ont plus cours depuis longtemps : écus de six livres, florins, ducats et ducatons, jacobus, nobles à la rose, et les pièces tombaient en silence.
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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