Jacoby
\ʑɑˈkoːbiː\
The verdict
“Jacoby” is uncommon French (frequency #52,769 among 957 “J” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,769
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-jacoby · Jacoby · French
Jacoby · rank #52,769 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,769
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH Jacq
Nearest frequency peer: Jacq (+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 « Jacoby »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Isabeau
Isabeau
47,235 corpus weight
- itou
itou
47,234 corpus weight
- Jacoby
Jacoby
47,232 corpus weight
- Jacq
Jacq
47,231 corpus weight
- jah
jah
47,230 corpus weight
- jardinière
jardinière
47,229 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Jacoby » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Jacoby |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʑɑˈkoːbiː\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #52,769 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Jacoby » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Jacoby is uncommon French at frequency #52,769 among 957 “J” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ʑɑˈkoːbiː\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Jacoby has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Jacoby, spelled J-A-C-O-B-Y.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
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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