jacque
\ʒak\
The verdict
“jacque” is uncommon French (frequency #63,106 among 957 “J” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,106
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pourpoint à manches et rembourré, servant à la fois de vêtement et de protection, en usage au Moyen Âge.
Corpus desk
Index FR-jacque · jacque · French
jacque · rank #63,106 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,106
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH Jabbar
Nearest frequency peer: Jabbar (-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 « jacque »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ischémie
ischémie
36,899 corpus weight
- isotopique
isotopique
36,898 corpus weight
- ivory
ivory
36,897 corpus weight
- Jabbar
Jabbar
36,896 corpus weight
- jacque
jacque
36,895 corpus weight
- japonnais
japonnais
36,894 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « jacque » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jacque |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒak\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #63,106 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « jacque » en français
Rare enough to double-check
jacque is uncommon French at frequency #63,106 among 957 “J” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʒak\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pourpoint à manches et rembourré, servant à la fois de vêtement et de protection, en usage au Moyen Âge.".
jacque has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is jacque, spelled J-A-C-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Pourpoint à manches et rembourré, servant à la fois de vêtement et de protection, en usage au Moyen Âge.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how jacque appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le roi était à cheval, vêtu de l’habillement court et étroit qu’on nommait une jacque ; le sien était en velours noir.
Jeanne fut introduite (...). Robuste, le cou puissant et court, la poitrine ample, autant qu’il y pouvait paraître sous le jacque.
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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