jeton
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#32,871
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
18
similar word pairs
jeton is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pièce de métal, d’ivoire, etc., plate et ordinairement ronde, dont on se servait autrefois pour calculer des sommes, et dont on se sert encore pour marquer et payer au jeu. Pronounced \ʒə.tɔ̃\. Often confused with jon and jets.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jeton |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒə.tɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #32,871 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for jeton is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒə.tɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #32,871 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for jeton, with forms such as "ejton", "jeotn", and "jetno". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "jon", "jets", "jette", 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 jeton, spelled J-E-T-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pièce de métal, d’ivoire, etc., plate et ordinairement ronde, dont on se servait autrefois pour calculer des sommes, et dont on se sert encore pour marquer et payer au jeu.
- 2Pièce de métal que l'on remettait lors d'une séance, d'une assemblée, aux personnes présentes, et qui leur permettait de toucher une indemnité.
- 3Pièce de métal que l'on remettait lors d'une séance, d'une assemblée, aux personnes présentes, et qui leur permettait de toucher une indemnité.
- 4Pièce de monnaie.
- 5Identifiant pseudonymisé donnant un accès restreint à des informations ou à un système d’information.
- 6Dispositif physique d’authentification.
- 7Coup asséné.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ejton,jeotn,jetno,jetonn,jetton,jjeton,jteon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for jeton
Misspelling Variants of "jeton"
Frequency rank: #32,871 in French
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