jard
\ʒaʁ\
The verdict
“jard” is uncommon French (frequency #71,630 among 957 “J” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,630
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sorte de poil, long et raide et de faible densité, qui assure la couverture externe des mammifères, par opposition au duvet.
Corpus desk
Index FR-jard · jard · French
jard · rank #71,630 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,630
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH jammes
Nearest frequency peer: jammes (-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 « jard »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Jaipur
Jaipur
28,373 corpus weight
- jammes
jammes
28,372 corpus weight
- jard
jard
28,371 corpus weight
- Joanie
Joanie
28,369 corpus weight
- jodi
jodi
28,368 corpus weight
- jordaniens
jordaniens
28,367 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « jard » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒaʁ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #71,630 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « jard » en français
Rare enough to double-check
jard is uncommon French at frequency #71,630 among 957 “J” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʒaʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sorte de poil, long et raide et de faible densité, qui assure la couverture externe des mammifères, par opposition au duvet.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for jard in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our 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 its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is jard, spelled J-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Sorte de poil, long et raide et de faible densité, qui assure la couverture externe des mammifères, par opposition au duvet.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how jard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
M. Ternaux ne désespère pas qu’au quatrième ou cinquième croisement, on puisse, en séparant le duvet du jard ou poil, en tirer un vrai lainage dans la classe du vigogne et du chameau.
Synonyms
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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