jambe en bois
The verdict
“jambe en bois” 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
- 13
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Prothèse que l'on mettait autrefois aux personnes qui avaient perdu leur jambe pour la remplacer.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jambe en bois |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒɑ̃.b‿ɑ̃ bwa\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “jambe en bois” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for jambe en bois is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒɑ̃.b‿ɑ̃ bwa\. 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: "Prothèse que l'on mettait autrefois aux personnes qui avaient perdu leur jambe pour la remplacer.".
No misspelling variants are generated for jambe en bois 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 en bois, spelled J-A-M-B-E- -E-N- -B-O-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Prothèse que l'on mettait autrefois aux personnes qui avaient perdu leur jambe pour la remplacer.
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Using “jambe en bois”
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- The one correct French spelling is J-A-M-B-E- -E-N- -B-O-I-S — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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