jaquette
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#31,100
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
jaquette is aFrenchnoun. It means: Robe que portaient les petits garçons. Pronounced \ʒa.kɛt\. Often confused with jacket and jackets.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jaquette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒa.kɛt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #31,100 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for jaquette is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒa.kɛt\. Corpus data places it at rank #31,100 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 13 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for jaquette, with forms such as "ajquette", "jaqeutte", and "jaqquette". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "jacket", "jackets", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is jaquette, spelled J-A-Q-U-E-T-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Robe que portaient les petits garçons.
- 2Sorte d’habillement d’homme, serré à la taille, fendu dans le bas du dos, et qui descend généralement jusqu’aux genoux. Vêtement de jour, il est porté dans les mariages et les grandes courses hippiques.
- 3Veste de femme ajustée à la taille.
- 4Jaque rembourrée portée sous la cotte de mailles ; gambison. ^([2])
- 5Couverture protégeant un livre relié ou broché ^([2]), un CD, DVD ou blu-ray. Note : Elle ne doit pas être confondue avec la couverture rempliée.
- 6Homosexualité masculine ^([2]).
- 7Chemise de nuit.
- 8Vêtement à manches longues couvrant le torse, souvent en tricot, fermé sur le devant à l’aide de boutons ou d’une fermeture éclair, généralement ajouté par-dessus un autre habit pour porter chaud. Cardigan. Veste. Gilet ^([3]).
- 9Nom vulgaire de la pie.
- 10Manchon d’acier renforçant la partie antérieure du tube d’un canon.
- 11Enveloppe extérieure en tôle d’une chaudière évitant toute déperdition de chaleur.
- 12Variante orthographique de jacket.
- 13Structure métallique fixée par des piles au fond de la mer, qui sert de support aux installations de surface d’une plateforme pétrolière.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ajquette,jaqeutte,jaqquette,jaquete,jaquetet,jaqutete,jauqette,jjaquette,jqauette
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "jaquette"
Frequency rank: #31,100 in French
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