jambe
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,770
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
18
similar word pairs
jambe is aFrenchnoun. It means: Partie de chacun des deux membres inférieurs de l’être humain, entre le genou et le pied. Pronounced \ʒɑ̃b\. It ranks #4,770 in French word frequency. Often confused with jme and Jane.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jambe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒɑ̃b\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #4,770 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for jambe is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒɑ̃b\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,770 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for jambe, with forms such as "ajmbe", "jabme", and "jambbe". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "jme", "Jane", "Jamy", 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 jambe, spelled J-A-M-B-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Partie de chacun des deux membres inférieurs de l’être humain, entre le genou et le pied.
- 2Le membre inférieur tout entier, y compris la cuisse.
- 3Patte de certains animaux qui permettent la locomotion et qui correspondent à la jambe chez l’être humain.
- 4Chacune des deux parties d’un pantalon, couvrant chacune une jambe.
- 5À propos d’un compas, chacune des deux branches.
- 6Pied de champignon.
- 7Jambes, ou larmes : caractéristique d’un vin visualisée par les trainées qu’il laisse le long d’un verre, d'autant plus abondantes que sa teneur en alcool est élevée.
- 8Pilier que l'on intercale dans un mur pour le renforcer, notamment sous les poutres.
- 9Nœud servant à raccourcir un cordage dont les deux bouts sont inaccessibles.
- 10Fil qui forme l'un des côtés d'une maille de filet de pêche.
- 11Meuble représentant une jambe humaine dans les armoiries. Elle est généralement représentée avec le genou fléchi, de la cuisse jusqu’au pied. Elle est rarement utilisée seule mais plutôt sous la forme d’un triskèle.
- 12Division d’une entreprise ou d’une administration.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ajmbe,jabme,jambbe,jameb,jammbe,jjambe,jmabe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for jambe
Misspelling Variants of "jambe"
Frequency rank: #4,770 in French
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