jaja

\ʒa.ʒa\

/\ʒa.ʒa\/ noun

The verdict

“jaja” is uncommon French (frequency #80,329 among 957 “J” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#80,329
frequency rank, French
957
“J” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vin de table.

Corpus desk

Index FR-jaja · jaja · French

jaja · rank #80,329 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #80,329
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 957
  • PHOTO-FINISH jetteront

Nearest frequency peer: jetteront (+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 « jaja »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « jaja » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for jaja
PropertyValue
Headwordjaja
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʒa.ʒa\
Letters4
Frequency rank#80,329
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « jaja » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).jajatombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « jetteront » (#80,330), « isaf » (#80,326), « Irkoutsk » (#80,325). Parmi 957 lemmes en « J », « jaja » est au #80,329. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

jaja is uncommon French at frequency #80,329 among 957 “J” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʒa.ʒa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

No misspelling variants are generated for jaja in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is jaja, spelled J-A-J-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    Vin de table.
  2. 2
    Toute substance visqueuse et peu ragoutante.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how jaja appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Je bois N'importe quel jaja Pourvu qu'il ait ses douze degrés cinq Je bois La pire des vinasses C'est dégueulasse, mais ça fait passer l'temps.
  2. — Bois plutôt un coup de rouge, grommela Gogaîlle qu’éberluait cette passion. Comment que sa bonne femme va le retrouver, songea-t-il avec un certain embarras. Dingue à mort et prêt à plonger dans le jaja jusqu’aux cheveux pour oublier la môme.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "jaja"?
"jaja" is spelled J-A-J-A. The IPA pronunciation is \ʒa.ʒa\.
What does "jaja" mean?
As a noun, "jaja" means: Vin de table.
How do you pronounce "jaja"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "jaja" is \ʒa.ʒa\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "jaja", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list