Jacq
The verdict
“Jacq” is uncommon French (frequency #52,770 among 957 “J” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,770
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-jacq · Jacq · French
Jacq · rank #52,770 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,770
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH Jacoby
Nearest frequency peer: Jacoby (-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 « Jacq »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- jarres
jarres
47,228 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Jacq » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Jacq |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #52,770 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Jacq » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Jacq is uncommon French at frequency #52,770 among 957 “J” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Jacq doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, 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 is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Jacq, spelled J-A-C-Q.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Jacq appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nos invités : Dr Catherine Simon (psychiatre, CHRU/Brest, vice-présidente/ANPAA), Dr Michel Jacq psychiatre, médecin-chef/centre Gilbert-Raby), Stéphanie Torremocha (psychologue/CH4V) et notre ami le docteur Éric Hispard (hôpital Fernand-Vidal, CSAPA Cap 14, président collégiale alcoologie de l’AP, administrateur SFA).
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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