jer
\jɛʁ\
The verdict
“jer” is uncommon French (frequency #62,390 among 957 “J” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,390
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Une des lettres cyrilliques Ъ/ъ et Ь/ь qui représentaient à l’origine phonémiquement les voyelles ultra-courtes dans les langues slaves.
Corpus desk
Index FR-jer · jer · French
jer · rank #62,390 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,390
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH jetterai
Nearest frequency peer: jetterai (+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 « jer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- jaunâtres
jaunâtres
37,614 corpus weight
- Jayne
Jayne
37,613 corpus weight
- jer
jer
37,611 corpus weight
- jetterai
jetterai
37,610 corpus weight
- Johannesbou…
Johannesbourg
37,609 corpus weight
- jonctions
jonctions
37,608 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « jer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \jɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #62,390 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « jer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
jer is uncommon French at frequency #62,390 among 957 “J” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \jɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Une des lettres cyrilliques Ъ/ъ et Ь/ь qui représentaient à l’origine phonémiquement les voyelles ultra-courtes dans les langues slaves.".
jer doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is jer, spelled J-E-R.
Definition
- 1Une des lettres cyrilliques Ъ/ъ et Ь/ь qui représentaient à l’origine phonémiquement les voyelles ultra-courtes dans les langues slaves.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how jer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est pourquoi, selon qu’ils considèrent l’étymologie ou le développement historique du slave, et selon leurs conceptions sur la chronologie des faits en vieux slave, les slavistes appellent ces i, y spéciaux tantôt des jers « allongés » ou « tendus », tantôt des i, у « réduits ».
This word in other languages
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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