Jesper

name

The verdict

“Jesper” is uncommon French (frequency #54,664 among 957 “J” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#54,664
frequency rank, French
957
“J” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom masculin.

Corpus desk

Index FR-jesper · Jesper · French

Jesper · rank #54,664 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #54,664
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 957
  • PHOTO-FINISH ITW

Nearest frequency peer: ITW (-2 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 « Jesper »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Jesper » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Jesper
PropertyValue
HeadwordJesper
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters6
Frequency rank#54,664
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « Jesper » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).Jespertombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « ITW » (#54,662), « joncs » (#54,666), « ise » (#54,661). Parmi 957 lemmes en « J », « Jesper » est au #54,664. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Jesper is uncommon French at frequency #54,664 among 957 “J” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prénom masculin.".

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Jesper, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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 borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Jesper, spelled J-E-S-P-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Prénom masculin.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how Jesper appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Sur une attaque de Francfort, c’est Valentin Rongier qui a malencontreusement offert une passe décisive à Jesper Lindstrøm en voulant intercepter.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Jesper"?
"Jesper" is spelled J-E-S-P-E-R.
What does "Jesper" mean?
As a proper noun, "Jesper" means: Prénom masculin.
What language does "Jesper" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Jesper", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list