japonnais
\ʒa.pɔ.nɛ\
The verdict
“japonnais” is uncommon French (frequency #63,107 among 957 “J” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,107
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe japonner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-japonnais · japonnais · French
japonnais · rank #63,107 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,107
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH jacque
Nearest frequency peer: jacque (-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 « japonnais »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- isotopique
isotopique
36,898 corpus weight
- ivory
ivory
36,897 corpus weight
- Jabbar
Jabbar
36,896 corpus weight
- jacque
jacque
36,895 corpus weight
- japonnais
japonnais
36,894 corpus weight
- Joliot
Joliot
36,891 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « japonnais » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | japonnais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʒa.pɔ.nɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #63,107 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « japonnais » en français
Rare enough to double-check
japonnais is uncommon French at frequency #63,107 among 957 “J” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʒa.pɔ.nɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for japonnais in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is japonnais, spelled J-A-P-O-N-N-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe japonner.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe japonner.
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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