jamais
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#116
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
jamais is anFrenchadv. It means: En un temps quelconque, futur ou hypothétique. Pronounced \ʒa.mɛ\. It ranks #116 in French word frequency. Often confused with James and Jamie.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jamais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adv |
| IPA | \ʒa.mɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #116 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for jamais is 6 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒa.mɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #116 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for jamais, with forms such as "ajmais", "jaamis", and "jamaiss". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "James", "Jamie", "jamal", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is jamais, spelled J-A-M-A-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1En un temps quelconque, futur ou hypothétique.
- 2En nul temps, à aucune occasion, en aucune façon — Note d’usage : Se rencontre combiné avec la particule négative ne (sauf, en réponse à une question, où son omission est de règle).
- 3En nul temps, à aucune occasion, en aucune façon — Note d’usage : Se rencontre combiné avec la particule négative ne (sauf, en réponse à une question, où son omission est de règle).
- 4En nul temps, à aucune occasion, en aucune façon — Note d’usage : Se rencontre combiné avec la particule négative ne (sauf, en réponse à une question, où son omission est de règle).
- 5En nul temps, à aucune occasion, en aucune façon — Note d’usage : Se rencontre combiné avec la particule négative ne (sauf, en réponse à une question, où son omission est de règle).
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ajmais,jaamis,jamaiss,jamasi,jamias,jammais,jjamais,jmaais
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for jamais
Misspelling Variants of "jamais"
Frequency rank: #116 in French
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