Jaoui
\ʒa.wi\
The verdict
“Jaoui” is uncommon French (frequency #81,279 among 957 “J” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,279
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-jaoui · Jaoui · French
Jaoui · rank #81,279 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,279
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH JAF
Nearest frequency peer: JAF (-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 « Jaoui »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- jacquart
jacquart
18,724 corpus weight
- JAF
JAF
18,723 corpus weight
- Jaoui
Jaoui
18,722 corpus weight
- joignait
joignait
18,721 corpus weight
- jonque
jonque
18,720 corpus weight
- jouisse
jouisse
18,719 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Jaoui » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Jaoui |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʒa.wi\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #81,279 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Jaoui » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Jaoui is uncommon French at frequency #81,279 among 957 “J” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ʒa.wi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Jaoui doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Jaoui, spelled J-A-O-U-I.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Jaoui appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sur scène, une myriade d’artistes, pour des lectures (par Agnès Jaoui, Anna Mouglalis), de l’humour (par Lison Daniel) et de la musique (avec Flavien Berger, Clara Ysé, Terrenoire…).
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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