jetée
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#13,823
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
jetée is aFrenchnoun. It means: Amas de pierres, de cailloux et d’autres matériaux jetés à côté du canal qui forme l’entrée d’un port, fortement maçonnés et ordinairement soutenus de pilotis, pour servir à rompre l’impétuosité de... Pronounced \ʒə.te\. Often confused with jets and jute.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jetée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒə.te\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #13,823 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for jetée is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒə.te\. Corpus data places it at rank #13,823 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for jetée, with forms such as "ejtée", "jetee", and "jeteé". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "jets", "jute", "jeune", 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 jetée, spelled J-E-T-É-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Amas de pierres, de cailloux et d’autres matériaux jetés à côté du canal qui forme l’entrée d’un port, fortement maçonnés et ordinairement soutenus de pilotis, pour servir à rompre l’impétuosité des vagues.
- 2Construction de bois ou de pierre que l’on fait dans un cours d’eau pour en redresser le lit.
- 3Amas de pierres, de sable et de cailloux jetés dans la longueur d’un mauvais chemin pour le rendre plus praticable.
- 4Chaque nouvel essaim d'abeilles.
- 5Par analogie, système flottant ayant fonction de jetée.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ejtée,jetee,jeteé,jettée,jeéte,jjetée,jteée
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for jetée
Misspelling Variants of "jetée"
Frequency rank: #13,823 in French
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