jarnac
\ʒaʁ.nak\
The verdict
“jarnac” is uncommon French (frequency #56,686 among 957 “J” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,686
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sorte de petit poignard.
Corpus desk
Index FR-jarnac · jarnac · French
jarnac · rank #56,686 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,686
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH jarl
Nearest frequency peer: jarl (-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 « jarnac »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- jointures
jointures
43,312 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « jarnac » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jarnac |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒaʁ.nak\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #56,686 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « jarnac » en français
Rare enough to double-check
jarnac is uncommon French at frequency #56,686 among 957 “J” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʒaʁ.nak\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sorte de petit poignard.".
jarnac has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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 jarnac, spelled J-A-R-N-A-C.
Definition
- 1Sorte de petit poignard.
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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