jetai
\ʒə.te\
The verdict
“jetai” is uncommon French (frequency #54,049 among 957 “J” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,049
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du passé simple de jeter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-jetai · jetai · French
jetai · rank #54,049 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,049
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH JMJ
Nearest frequency peer: JMJ (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « jetai »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ivoiriennes
ivoiriennes
45,955 corpus weight
- jatte
jatte
45,954 corpus weight
- jetai
jetai
45,952 corpus weight
- JMJ
JMJ
45,951 corpus weight
- jobin
jobin
45,950 corpus weight
- jongleurs
jongleurs
45,949 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « jetai » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jetai |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʒə.te\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #54,049 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « jetai » en français
Rare enough to double-check
jetai is uncommon French at frequency #54,049 among 957 “J” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʒə.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Première personne du singulier du passé simple de jeter.".
jetai doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is jetai, spelled J-E-T-A-I.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du passé simple de jeter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how jetai appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’aidais Sammy à pêcher, je lui jetai sa ligne, quand j’ai harponné par son col de chemise un gentleman qui passait en canoë sur la rivière.
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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