Jankélévitch
\ʒɑ̃.ke.le.vitʃ\
The verdict
“Jankélévitch” is uncommon French (frequency #97,058 among 957 “J” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,058
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-jankelevitch · Jankélévitch · French
Jankélévitch · rank #97,058 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,058
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH Japhet
Nearest frequency peer: Japhet (+1 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 « Jankélévitch »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- irréelles
irréelles
2,947 corpus weight
- irréfléchies
irréfléchies
2,946 corpus weight
- Jankélévitch
Jankélévitch
2,943 corpus weight
- Japhet
Japhet
2,942 corpus weight
- joggings
joggings
2,941 corpus weight
- Jory
Jory
2,940 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Jankélévitch » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Jankélévitch |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʒɑ̃.ke.le.vitʃ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #97,058 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Jankélévitch » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Jankélévitch is uncommon French at frequency #97,058 among 957 “J” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ʒɑ̃.ke.le.vitʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Jankélévitch, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Jankélévitch, spelled J-A-N-K-É-L-É-V-I-T-C-H.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Jankélévitch appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vladimir Jankélévitch.
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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