jarl
\jaʁl\
The verdict
“jarl” is uncommon French (frequency #56,685 among 957 “J” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,685
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Titre de noblesse scandinave, équivalant au comte français.
Corpus desk
Index FR-jarl · jarl · French
jarl · rank #56,685 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,685
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH jarnac
Nearest frequency peer: jarnac (+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 « jarl »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- inégalement
inégalement
43,319 corpus weight
- ite
ite
43,318 corpus weight
- jarl
jarl
43,316 corpus weight
- jarnac
jarnac
43,315 corpus weight
- Jeanson
Jeanson
43,314 corpus weight
- Jena
Jena
43,313 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « jarl » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jarl |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \jaʁl\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #56,685 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « jarl » en français
Rare enough to double-check
jarl is uncommon French at frequency #56,685 among 957 “J” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \jaʁl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Titre de noblesse scandinave, équivalant au comte français.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for jarl, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is jarl, spelled J-A-R-L.
Definition
- 1Titre de noblesse scandinave, équivalant au comte français.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how jarl appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À l’origine, ce titre désignait tout homme libre ; plus tard, il s’appliquait à la classe des grands seigneurs et des guerriers de haute naissance. Lorsqu’un roi était parvenu à réunir en une seule monarchie plusieurs petits États, il plaçait à la tête de ceux-ci des jarls (espèce de gouverneurs ou vice-rois) qui, de ce fait, lui devaient un tribut et du…
This word in other languages
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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