jarretière
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#58,043
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
jarretière is aFrenchnoun. It means: Sorte de ruban, de tissu élastique entourant la jambe au-dessus ou au-dessous du genou et qui maintient le bas. Pronounced \ʒaʁ.tjɛʁ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jarretière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒaʁ.tjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #58,043 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for jarretière is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒaʁ.tjɛʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #58,043 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for jarretière in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 jarretière, spelled J-A-R-R-E-T-I-È-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sorte de ruban, de tissu élastique entourant la jambe au-dessus ou au-dessous du genou et qui maintient le bas.
- 2Ruban mis aux enchères lors d’un mariage.
- 3Certains cordages d’amarrage.
- 4Courte liaison entre deux têtes de câbles dans un répartiteur. On la nomme aussi cordon de brassage
- 5Un des noms vernaculaires d'un poisson tout en longueur, la cépole commune (Cepola macrophthalma).
- 6Bague ayant au moins 5 pierres serties en ligne.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #58,043 in French
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