jag
\jaːk\
The verdict
“jag” is uncommon French (frequency #53,428 among 957 “J” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,428
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de jagen.
Corpus desk
Index FR-jag · jag · French
jag · rank #53,428 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,428
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH Jacquie
Nearest frequency peer: Jacquie (-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 « jag »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- jacinthe
jacinthe
46,575 corpus weight
- Jacquie
Jacquie
46,574 corpus weight
- jag
jag
46,573 corpus weight
- jaillissent
jaillissent
46,572 corpus weight
- jaunisse
jaunisse
46,571 corpus weight
- Jeannie
Jeannie
46,570 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « jag » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jag |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \jaːk\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #53,428 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « jag » en français
Rare enough to double-check
jag is uncommon French at frequency #53,428 among 957 “J” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \jaːk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de jagen.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for jag, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is jag, spelled J-A-G.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de jagen.
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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