jacquet
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#32,453
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
jacquet is aFrenchnoun. It means: Jeu analogue au tric-trac, qui se joue dans une boite à deux compartiments sur lesquels sont dessinés des triangles blancs et noirs. Pronounced \ʒa.kɛ\. Often confused with jaques and Jacquot.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jacquet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒa.kɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #32,453 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for jacquet is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒa.kɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #32,453 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for jacquet, with forms such as "ajcquet", "jaccquet", and "jacqeut". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "jaques", "Jacquot", "jacket", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is jacquet, spelled J-A-C-Q-U-E-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Jeu analogue au tric-trac, qui se joue dans une boite à deux compartiments sur lesquels sont dessinés des triangles blancs et noirs.
- 2La boîte elle-même où l’on joue au jacquet.
- 3Pèlerin en route pour Saint-Jacques de Compostelle
- 4Domestique, laquais.
- 5Écureuil.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ajcquet,jaccquet,jacqeut,jacqquet,jacquett,jacqute,jacuqet,jaqcuet,jcaquet,jjacquet
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Misspelling Variants of "jacquet"
Frequency rank: #32,453 in French
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