jamboree
\ʒɑ̃m.bo.ʁe\
The verdict
“jamboree” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rassemblement de scouts.
Corpus desk
Index FR-jamboree · jamboree · French
jamboree · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "J" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jamboree |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒɑ̃m.bo.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
jamboree is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʒɑ̃m.bo.ʁe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for jamboree in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is jamboree, spelled J-A-M-B-O-R-E-E.
Definition
- 1Rassemblement de scouts.
- 2Rassemblement de personnes appartenant à une même organisation ou association, sectaire par exemple.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how jamboree appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Hollande s’est toujours comporté comme le bon petit copain de l’ENA qui anime les jamborees de promotion, gagne immanquablement au jokari, et tombe des filles dont l’éducation catholique a été corrigée par la contraception orale.
Le Rassemblements des Tribus -- c'est la traduction française du mot indien jamboree -- aura lieu chez nous du 9 août au 21 août à Moisson près de Mantes
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.