jamais au grand jamais
\ʒa.mɛ o ɡʁɑ̃ ʒa.mɛ\
The verdict
“jamais au grand jamais” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adverb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 22
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Absolument jamais, absolument en aucun temps.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jamais au grand jamais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \ʒa.mɛ o ɡʁɑ̃ ʒa.mɛ\ |
| Letters | 22 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “jamais au grand jamais” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for jamais au grand jamais is 22 letters long, classified as an adverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒa.mɛ o ɡʁɑ̃ ʒa.mɛ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Absolument jamais, absolument en aucun temps.".
jamais au grand jamais doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 jamais au grand jamais, spelled J-A-M-A-I-S- -A-U- -G-R-A-N-D- -J-A-M-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Absolument jamais, absolument en aucun temps.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “jamais au grand jamais”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is J-A-M-A-I-S- -A-U- -G-R-A-N-D- -J-A-M-A-I-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʒa.mɛ o ɡʁɑ̃ ʒa.mɛ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.