jamais au grand jamais
\ʒa.mɛ o ɡʁɑ̃ ʒa.mɛ\
The verdict
“jamais au grand jamais” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 22
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Absolument jamais, absolument en aucun temps.
Corpus desk
Index FR-jamais-au-grand-jamais · jamais au grand jamais · French
jamais au grand jamais · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 22 letters
- VOW-9 9 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "J" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « jamais au grand jamais » en français
Rare enough to double-check
jamais au grand jamais is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadverb, transcribed \ʒa.mɛ o ɡʁɑ̃ ʒa.mɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how jamais au grand jamais appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] jamais au grand jamais je n’iray là.
Enfin jamais au grand jamais, Cœur n’eut & n’aura désormais, Tant sur la Terre que sur l’Onde, Vienne qui voudra dans le Monde, […]
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.