jars
\ʒaʁ\
The verdict
“jars” is uncommon French (frequency #84,923 among 957 “J” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,923
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mâle de l’oie domestique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-jars · jars · French
jars · rank #84,923 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,923
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH jacinthes
Nearest frequency peer: jacinthes (-2 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 « jars »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- islamologue
islamologue
15,083 corpus weight
- jacinthes
jacinthes
15,080 corpus weight
- jars
jars
15,078 corpus weight
- jigsaw
jigsaw
15,076 corpus weight
- Joaquín
Joaquín
15,074 corpus weight
- Jodoigne
Jodoigne
15,073 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « jars » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jars |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒaʁ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #84,923 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « jars » en français
Rare enough to double-check
jars is uncommon French at frequency #84,923 among 957 “J” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʒaʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for jars in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is jars, spelled J-A-R-S.
Definition
- 1Mâle de l’oie domestique.
- 2Meuble représentant l’animal du même nom dans les armoiries. Il est généralement représenté de passant. À rapprocher de canard, cane, canette, cygne et oie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how jars appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Scapin fit signe de la main aux comédiens de rester immobiles, et bientôt du fourré déboucha un magnifique jars, le col tendu, la tête haute, et se dandinant avec une stupidité majestueuse sur ses larges pattes palmées. Deux oies, ses épouses, le suivaient confiantes et naïves.
Les deux jars, en tête, s’arrêtèrent brusquement, hanchant sur une patte, leurs grands becs jaunes tournés l’un vers l’autre ; et les becs de chaque bande, tous à la fois, suivirent le bec de leur chef, tandis que les corps hanchaient du même côté.
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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