JAPD
\ʒi.a.pe.de\
The verdict
“JAPD” is uncommon French (frequency #72,450 among 957 “J” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,450
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Journée d'appel de préparation à la défense, ancien nom de la journée défense et citoyenneté (JDC).
Corpus desk
Index FR-japd · JAPD · French
JAPD · rank #72,450 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,450
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH jans
Nearest frequency peer: jans (-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 « JAPD »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- isomères
isomères
27,555 corpus weight
- jaco
jaco
27,553 corpus weight
- jans
jans
27,552 corpus weight
- JAPD
JAPD
27,551 corpus weight
- jes
jes
27,549 corpus weight
- joailliers
joailliers
27,548 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « JAPD » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | JAPD |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒi.a.pe.de\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #72,450 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « JAPD » en français
Rare enough to double-check
JAPD is uncommon French at frequency #72,450 among 957 “J” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʒi.a.pe.de\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Journée d'appel de préparation à la défense, ancien nom de la journée défense et citoyenneté (JDC).".
No misspelling variants are generated for JAPD in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 JAPD, spelled J-A-P-D.
Definition
- 1Journée d'appel de préparation à la défense, ancien nom de la journée défense et citoyenneté (JDC).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how JAPD appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La JAPD est instituée en 1998, dans le cadre de la réforme du service national qui ne supprime pas la conscription, mais suspend l’appel sous les drapeaux.
Un module secourisme a été intégré à la JAPD, intitulé ‘Initiation à l’alerte et aux premiers secours’.
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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