jar
\ʒaʁ\
The verdict
“jar” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #35,564) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #35,564
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Banc de gros graviers et de sable, amoncellements, pouvant remodeler le lit du fleuve d’une année sur l’autre, et utilisés pour l’empierrement des chaussées, la confection de béton.
Corpus desk
Index FR-jar · jar · French
jar · rank #35,564 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,564
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH Jakarta
Nearest frequency peer: Jakarta (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « jar »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- iroquois
iroquois
64,440 corpus weight
- irréversibl…
irréversibles
64,439 corpus weight
- Jakarta
Jakarta
64,438 corpus weight
- jar
jar
64,437 corpus weight
- joujou
joujou
64,435 corpus weight
- journalisti…
journalistiques
64,434 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « jar » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jar |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒaʁ\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #35,564 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « jar »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for jar is neighbouring look-alikes ("je", "jo", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ʒaʁ\. Frequency #35,564 among 957 “J” headwords. Gloss: "Banc de gros graviers et de sable, amoncellements, pouvant remodeler le lit du fleuve d’une année sur l’autre, et utilisés pour l’empierrement des chaussées, la confection de béton.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for jar, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "je", "jo", "JT", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is jar, spelled J-A-R.
Definition
- 1Banc de gros graviers et de sable, amoncellements, pouvant remodeler le lit du fleuve d’une année sur l’autre, et utilisés pour l’empierrement des chaussées, la confection de béton.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how jar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La Loire fournit en abondance sable de rivière, gros sable et caillou, encore appelé jar (ou jard).
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).