Jamin
\ʒa.mɛ̃\
The verdict
“Jamin” is uncommon French (frequency #67,621 among 957 “J” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,621
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-jamin · Jamin · French
Jamin · rank #67,621 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,621
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH jabot
Nearest frequency peer: jabot (-2 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Jamin »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- intégrait
intégrait
32,388 corpus weight
- irrecevabil…
irrecevabilité
32,387 corpus weight
- Isolde
Isolde
32,386 corpus weight
- jabot
jabot
32,382 corpus weight
- Jamin
Jamin
32,380 corpus weight
- jouabilité
jouabilité
32,374 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Jamin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Jamin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʒa.mɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #67,621 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Jamin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Jamin is uncommon French at frequency #67,621 among 957 “J” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ʒa.mɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Jamin, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Jamin, spelled J-A-M-I-N.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Jamin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Éric Jamin est responsable de cette unité un peu spéciale du laboratoire Eurofins.
Le court métrage le voyage de l’eau, entièrement réalisé par quatre classes du bassin versant du Chavanon dans le cadre d’un projet pédagogique avec le PNR de Millevaches et le vidéaste Arnaud Jamin, a été présenté en avant-première.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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