jaws
\dʒɔːz\
The verdict
“jaws” is uncommon French (frequency #74,915 among 957 “J” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,915
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mâchoires (pluriel de jaw).
Corpus desk
Index FR-jaws · jaws · French
jaws · rank #74,915 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,915
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH jazzman
Nearest frequency peer: jazzman (+1 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 « jaws »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Jahrbuch
Jahrbuch
25,089 corpus weight
- Jalabert
Jalabert
25,088 corpus weight
- jaws
jaws
25,086 corpus weight
- jazzman
jazzman
25,085 corpus weight
- Jenni
Jenni
25,083 corpus weight
- jeon
jeon
25,082 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « jaws » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jaws |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dʒɔːz\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #74,915 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « jaws » en français
Rare enough to double-check
jaws is uncommon French at frequency #74,915 among 957 “J” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dʒɔːz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
jaws doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 jaws, spelled J-A-W-S.
Definition
- 1Mâchoires (pluriel de jaw).
- 2Jaws, nom original du film Les dents de la mer.
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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