jamai
\d͡ʒa.ˈmaj\
The verdict
“jamai” is uncommon French (frequency #99,239 among 957 “J” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,239
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (adverbe de temps) Jamais.
Corpus desk
Index FR-jamai · jamai · French
jamai · rank #99,239 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,239
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH jaillissait
Nearest frequency peer: jaillissait (-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 « jamai »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- italiani
italiani
765 corpus weight
- jaillissait
jaillissait
763 corpus weight
- jamai
jamai
762 corpus weight
- jene
jene
761 corpus weight
- jorn
jorn
760 corpus weight
- jouiez
jouiez
759 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « jamai » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jamai |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \d͡ʒa.ˈmaj\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #99,239 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « jamai » en français
Rare enough to double-check
jamai is uncommon French at frequency #99,239 among 957 “J” headwords, classed as anadverb, transcribed \d͡ʒa.ˈmaj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "(adverbe de temps) Jamais.".
jamai doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 jamai, spelled J-A-M-A-I.
Definition
- 1(adverbe de temps) Jamais.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how jamai appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cal pas dire jamai, d’aquela aiga non beurai.
Mentre que la Margarida balançava, el li pausèt tendrament un poton sus la boca, que jamai non s’acabava.
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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