jambé dlo
The verdict
“jambé dlo” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Pour un habitant des Antilles françaises, quitter son île natale et traverser l’Atlantique pour rejoindre la France métropolitaine avec la promesse d’y trouver du travail, particulièrement entre 19...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jambé dlo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʒɑ̃be dlo\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “jambé dlo” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for jambé dlo is 9 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒɑ̃be dlo\. 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: "Pour un habitant des Antilles françaises, quitter son île natale et traverser l’Atlantique pour rejoindre la France métropolitaine avec la promesse d’y trouver du travail, particulièrement entre 19...".
No misspelling variants are generated for jambé dlo 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 jambé dlo, spelled J-A-M-B-É- -D-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pour un habitant des Antilles françaises, quitter son île natale et traverser l’Atlantique pour rejoindre la France métropolitaine avec la promesse d’y trouver du travail, particulièrement entre 1960 et 1980.
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Using “jambé dlo”
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- The one correct French spelling is J-A-M-B-É- -D-L-O — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʒɑ̃be dlo\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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