jambon
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,182
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
jambon is aFrenchnoun. It means: Cuisse (partie supérieure de la patte arrière) d’un suidé (porc ou sanglier), qui a été préparée par cuisson, salage, fumage ou boucanage, comme nourriture. Pronounced \ʒɑ̃.bɔ̃\. It ranks #9,182 in French word frequency. Often confused with Japon and Jason.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jambon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒɑ̃.bɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #9,182 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for jambon is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒɑ̃.bɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #9,182 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for jambon, with forms such as "ajmbon", "jabmon", and "jambbon". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "Japon", "Jason", "jumbo", 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 jambon, spelled J-A-M-B-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cuisse (partie supérieure de la patte arrière) d’un suidé (porc ou sanglier), qui a été préparée par cuisson, salage, fumage ou boucanage, comme nourriture.
- 2Boxeur servant à gonfler la fiche d'un autre. Adversaire pour bien faire paraître le champion.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ajmbon,jabmon,jambbon,jambno,jambonn,jammbon,jamobn,jjambon,jmabon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for jambon
Misspelling Variants of "jambon"
Frequency rank: #9,182 in French
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "jambon"?
What does "jambon" mean?
What words are commonly confused with "jambon"?
How do you pronounce "jambon"?
What language does "jambon" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter J in our French index: