Jawa
French, noun
Jawa is spelled J-A-W-A (4 letters) and appears about once in every 17 million words in written French, the 135,114th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Jawa is a French masculine noun meaning “a fictional small humanoid race living on the fictional planet Tatooine in the franchise Star Wars” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Peuple de l’univers de Star Wars, de petits humanoïdes originaires de la planète Tatooine”.
What does Jawa mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinea fictional small humanoid race living on the fictional planet Tatooine in the franchise Star Wars
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Peuple de l’univers de Star Wars, de petits humanoïdes originaires de la planète Tatooine.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of Jawa
- Jawas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is Jawa in French?
Jawa appears about once in every 17 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).