jatte

/\ʒat\/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#54,047

in French word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

jatte is aFrenchnoun. It means: Espèce de vase rond, tout d’une pièce et sans rebord, de profondeur intermédiaire entre un grand bol et une écuelle, généralement en terre cuite, en faïence ou en porcelaine (plus rarement en bois)... Pronounced \ʒat\.

Key facts for jatte
PropertyValue
Headwordjatte
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʒat\
Letters5
Frequency rank#54,047
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of jatte in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for jatte is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒat\. Corpus data places it at rank #54,047 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 frequent misspelling variants are recorded for jatte in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 jatte, spelled J-A-T-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Espèce de vase rond, tout d’une pièce et sans rebord, de profondeur intermédiaire entre un grand bol et une écuelle, généralement en terre cuite, en faïence ou en porcelaine (plus rarement en bois), utilisée dans la confection de plusieurs mets comme les compotes ou les entremets, des fruits au sirop, du lait, du fromage blanc, parfois pour du thé ou un consommé.
  2. 2
    Sébile de bois percée de trous dont se servent les passementiers.
  3. 3
    Pièce d’artifice du genre des girandoles.
  4. 4
    Employé pour désigner un bateau.
  5. 5
    Bouche d’une personne bavarde.
  6. 6
    Tasse. Spécialement : (a) tasse de café (contenu seulement) ; (b) tasse de ou à soupe (contenant ou contenu) ; mug.

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Frequency rank: #54,047 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "jatte"?
"jatte" is spelled J-A-T-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʒat\.
What does "jatte" mean?
As a noun, "jatte" means: Espèce de vase rond, tout d’une pièce et sans rebord, de profondeur intermédiaire entre un grand bol et une écuelle, généralement en terre cuite, en faïence ou en porcelaine (plus rarement en bois)...
How do you pronounce "jatte"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "jatte" is \ʒat\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "jatte" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.