jaille
\ʒaj\
The verdict
“jaille” is uncommon French (frequency #82,143 among 957 “J” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,143
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Objet bon à jeter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-jaille · jaille · French
jaille · rank #82,143 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,143
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH jacobites
Nearest frequency peer: jacobites (-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 « jaille »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- intruse
intruse
17,863 corpus weight
- irritées
irritées
17,862 corpus weight
- jacobites
jacobites
17,859 corpus weight
- jaille
jaille
17,858 corpus weight
- Jennyfer
Jennyfer
17,856 corpus weight
- Jouin
Jouin
17,855 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « jaille » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jaille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒaj\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #82,143 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « jaille » en français
Rare enough to double-check
jaille is uncommon French at frequency #82,143 among 957 “J” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʒaj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for jaille in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is jaille, spelled J-A-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Objet bon à jeter.
- 2Dépotoir, déchetterie.
- 3Paroles futiles référence nécessaire (résoudre le problème).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how jaille appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La place minime accordée aux outils de ce tiroir est compensée par 1 anarchisme de fait puisque s’y mélangent 1 certain nombre d’objets sans rapport les uns avec les autres, qui donne à ce capharnaüm 1 note semblable à celle que les surréalistes attribuaient au marché aux puces : 1 carte de France découpée dans de la moquette rose (cadeau de mon ami Bruno…
C’est de la jaille, c’est du vent.
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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