Jesper
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
- irrationnels
irrationnels
45,341 corpus weight
- ise
ise
45,340 corpus weight
- ITW
ITW
45,339 corpus weight
- Jesper
Jesper
45,337 corpus weight
- joncs
joncs
45,335 corpus weight
- Jutra
Jutra
45,333 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Jesper » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Jesper |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #54,664 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Jesper » en français
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
- 1Prénom masculin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Jesper appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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