jest
\dʒɛst\
The verdict
“jest” is uncommon French (frequency #93,929 among 957 “J” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,929
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Facétie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-jest · jest · French
jest · rank #93,929 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,929
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH Jew
Nearest frequency peer: Jew (+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 « jest »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- jano
jano
6,076 corpus weight
- jaquettes
jaquettes
6,075 corpus weight
- jest
jest
6,072 corpus weight
- Jew
Jew
6,070 corpus weight
- jonchées
jonchées
6,067 corpus weight
- Josip
Josip
6,066 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « jest » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jest |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dʒɛst\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #93,929 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « jest » en français
Rare enough to double-check
jest is uncommon French at frequency #93,929 among 957 “J” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dʒɛst\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Facétie.".
jest has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is jest, spelled J-E-S-T.
Definition
- 1Facétie.
Synonyms
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).