jardine
\ʒaʁ.din\
The verdict
“jardine” is uncommon French (frequency #76,702 among 47,938 “J” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,702
- frequency rank, French
- 47,938
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif du verbe jardiner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-jardine · jardine · French
jardine · rank #76,702 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,702
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 47,938
- PHOTO-FINISH janot
Nearest frequency peer: janot (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “jardine”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- jaillissant
jaillissant
23,302 corpus weight
- janot
janot
23,300 corpus weight
- jardine
jardine
23,299 corpus weight
- jardinières
jardinières
23,298 corpus weight
- Jayden
Jayden
23,297 corpus weight
- JEP
JEP
23,296 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “jardine” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jardine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʒaʁ.din\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #76,702 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “jardine” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
jardine is uncommon French at frequency #76,702 among 47,938 “J” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʒaʁ.din\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for jardine in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is jardine, spelled J-A-R-D-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif du verbe jardiner.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif du verbe jardiner.
- 3Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif du verbe jardiner.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif du verbe jardiner.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif du verbe jardiner.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "jardine", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.