jarre
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#28,218
in French word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
17
similar word pairs
jarre is aFrenchnoun. It means: Récipient généralement en terre cuite, de forme ovoïde et de différentes dimensions, où l’on conserve l’eau, l’huile, les olives. Pronounced \ʒaʁ\. Often confused with juré and jaune.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jarre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒaʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #28,218 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for jarre is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒaʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #28,218 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for jarre, with forms such as "ajrre", "jare", and "jarer". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 17 confusable-pair relationships, "juré", "jaune", "Jerry", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is jarre, spelled J-A-R-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Récipient généralement en terre cuite, de forme ovoïde et de différentes dimensions, où l’on conserve l’eau, l’huile, les olives.
- 2Fontaine de terre cuite dont on se sert dans les maisons.
- 3Dans un moulin, futaille où tombe le son.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ajrre,jare,jarer,jjarre,jrare
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "jarre"
Frequency rank: #28,218 in French
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