jailbreak
\dʒɛl.bʁɛk\
The verdict
“jailbreak” is uncommon French (frequency #66,842 among 957 “J” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,842
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Installation d’une ou plusieurs applications sur un appareil Apple iPhone ou iPod Touch, en contournant la GDN.
Corpus desk
Index FR-jailbreak · jailbreak · French
jailbreak · rank #66,842 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,842
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH jad
Nearest frequency peer: jad (-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 « jailbreak »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- irions
irions
33,163 corpus weight
- Jacquemin
Jacquemin
33,161 corpus weight
- jad
jad
33,160 corpus weight
- jailbreak
jailbreak
33,159 corpus weight
- Jamil
Jamil
33,158 corpus weight
- jokes
jokes
33,155 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « jailbreak » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jailbreak |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dʒɛl.bʁɛk\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #66,842 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « jailbreak » en français
Rare enough to double-check
jailbreak is uncommon French at frequency #66,842 among 957 “J” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dʒɛl.bʁɛk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Installation d’une ou plusieurs applications sur un appareil Apple iPhone ou iPod Touch, en contournant la GDN.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for jailbreak, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is jailbreak, spelled J-A-I-L-B-R-E-A-K.
Definition
- 1Installation d’une ou plusieurs applications sur un appareil Apple iPhone ou iPod Touch, en contournant la GDN.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how jailbreak appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Apple semble l’appliquer à la lettre, avec le recrutement en stage du hacker Comex, qui s’est rendu célèbre avec ses jailbreaks de l’iPhone.
Synonyms
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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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