jet

/\ʒɛ\/ noun

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.

Key facts for jet
PropertyValue
Headwordjet
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʒɛ\
Letters3
Frequency rank#6,105
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of jet in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Action de jeter ou mouvement qu’on imprime à un corps en le jetant.
  2. 2
    Action de jeter à la mer une partie du chargement dont on veut se débarrasser pour une raison quelconque, par exemple pour sauver un navire.
  3. 3
    Tout le poisson qui sera pris par le coup de filet.
  4. 4
    Manière plus ou moins naturelle dont les mouvements, les plis d’une draperie sont rendus dans un tableau.
  5. 5
    Action d’introduire, de faire couler la matière dans le moule, lorsqu’elle est en fusion.
  6. 6
    Ouvertures ménagées pour donner passage à la matière en fusion et la distribuer dans toutes les parties du moule.
  7. 7
    Ce que l'on fait en une fois de manière continue.
  8. 8
    Flux d'un liquide ou d'un gaz, qui jaillit avec force en filet, en colonne, etc.
  9. 9
    Nouvel essaim qui sort de la ruche.
  10. 10
    Bourgeons, des scions que poussent les arbres, les vignes.
  11. 11
    Forme élancée et rectiligne d'un arbre.
  12. 12
    Courte lanière attachée à la patte de l'oiseau

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #6,105 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "jet"?
"jet" is spelled J-E-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ʒɛ\.
What does "jet" mean?
As a noun, "jet" means: Action de jeter ou mouvement qu’on imprime à un corps en le jetant.
What words are commonly confused with "jet"?
"jet" is commonly confused with "jo", "JT", "ji". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "jet"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "jet" is \ʒɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "jet" come from?
"jet" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.