jah
\ˈjɑh\
The verdict
“jah” is uncommon French (frequency #52,771 among 957 “J” headwords), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,771
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Oui.
Corpus desk
Index FR-jah · jah · French
jah · rank #52,771 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,771
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- 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 « jah »
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 « jah » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jah |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | \ˈjɑh\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #52,771 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « jah » en français
Rare enough to double-check
jah is uncommon French at frequency #52,771 among 957 “J” headwords, classed as aninterjection, transcribed \ˈjɑh\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Oui.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for jah, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is jah, spelled J-A-H.
Definition
- 1Oui.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how jah appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Jah, ma tean. — Oui, je sais.
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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