jaune jonquille
\ʒon ʒɔ̃.kij\
The verdict
“jaune jonquille” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adjective - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — D’un jaune proche de celui des fleurs de jonquille.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jaune jonquille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʒon ʒɔ̃.kij\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “jaune jonquille” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for jaune jonquille is 15 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒon ʒɔ̃.kij\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "D’un jaune proche de celui des fleurs de jonquille.".
No misspelling variants are generated for jaune jonquille 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 jaune jonquille, spelled J-A-U-N-E- -J-O-N-Q-U-I-L-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1D’un jaune proche de celui des fleurs de jonquille.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “jaune jonquille”
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- The one correct French spelling is J-A-U-N-E- -J-O-N-Q-U-I-L-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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