jet
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,105
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
jet is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de jeter ou mouvement qu’on imprime à un corps en le jetant. Pronounced \ʒɛ\. It ranks #6,105 in French word frequency. Often confused with jo and JT.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒɛ\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #6,105 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for jet is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,105 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for jet in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "jo", "JT", "ji", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is jet, spelled J-E-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Action de jeter ou mouvement qu’on imprime à un corps en le jetant.
- 2Action de jeter à la mer une partie du chargement dont on veut se débarrasser pour une raison quelconque, par exemple pour sauver un navire.
- 3Tout le poisson qui sera pris par le coup de filet.
- 4Manière plus ou moins naturelle dont les mouvements, les plis d’une draperie sont rendus dans un tableau.
- 5Action d’introduire, de faire couler la matière dans le moule, lorsqu’elle est en fusion.
- 6Ouvertures ménagées pour donner passage à la matière en fusion et la distribuer dans toutes les parties du moule.
- 7Ce que l'on fait en une fois de manière continue.
- 8Flux d'un liquide ou d'un gaz, qui jaillit avec force en filet, en colonne, etc.
- 9Nouvel essaim qui sort de la ruche.
- 10Bourgeons, des scions que poussent les arbres, les vignes.
- 11Forme élancée et rectiligne d'un arbre.
- 12Courte lanière attachée à la patte de l'oiseau
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #6,105 in French
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