jazz
French, noun/dʒaz/
jazz is spelled J-A-Z-Z (4 letters) and appears 15 times per million words in written French, the 4,842nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Jazz is a French masculine noun meaning “jazz (music style)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Style de musique afro-américaine né aux États-Unis au début du XXᵉ siècle, issu du croisement du blues, du…”.
What does jazz mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinejazz (music style)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Style de musique afro-américaine né aux États-Unis au début du XXᵉ siècle, issu du croisement du blues, du ragtime et de la musique européenne. 2. Orchestre, jouant principalement de la musique de jazz.
noun: 1. Cultivar de pomme.
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 jazz
- jazzs plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce jazz?
- /dʒaz/
- /dʒɑz/
- \dʒaz\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to jazz
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is jazz in French?
jazz appears 15 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).