jambe de force
The verdict
“jambe de force” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Pièce de bois qui, posée sur les extrémités de la poutre du dernier étage d’un bâtiment, se joint dans le poinçon pour former le comble.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jambe de force |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒɑ̃b də fɔʁs\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “jambe de force” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for jambe de force is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒɑ̃b də fɔʁs\. 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: "Pièce de bois qui, posée sur les extrémités de la poutre du dernier étage d’un bâtiment, se joint dans le poinçon pour former le comble.".
No misspelling variants are generated for jambe de force in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 de force, spelled J-A-M-B-E- -D-E- -F-O-R-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pièce de bois qui, posée sur les extrémités de la poutre du dernier étage d’un bâtiment, se joint dans le poinçon pour former le comble.
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Using “jambe de force”
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- The one correct French spelling is J-A-M-B-E- -D-E- -F-O-R-C-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʒɑ̃b də fɔʁs\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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