jesu
\jesu\
The verdict
“jesu” is uncommon French (frequency #56,057 among 47,938 “J” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,057
- frequency rank, French
- 47,938
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Impératif de jesi.
Corpus desk
Index FR-jesu · jesu · French
jesu · rank #56,057 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,057
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 47,938
- PHOTO-FINISH Jolivet
Nearest frequency peer: Jolivet (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “jesu”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Janssens
Janssens
43,948 corpus weight
- jansénisme
jansénisme
43,947 corpus weight
- Japanese
Japanese
43,946 corpus weight
- jesu
jesu
43,944 corpus weight
- Jolivet
Jolivet
43,943 corpus weight
- jpp
jpp
43,942 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “jesu” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jesu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \jesu\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #56,057 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “jesu” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
jesu is uncommon French at frequency #56,057 among 47,938 “J” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \jesu\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Impératif de jesi.".
No misspelling variants are generated for jesu in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is jesu, spelled J-E-S-U.
Definition
- 1Impératif de jesi.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.