jeton de téléphone
\ʒə.tɔ̃ də te.le.fɔn\
The verdict
“jeton de téléphone” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Rondelle métallique plus ou moins de la taille d'une pièce de monnaie, possédant généralement un rainurage spécifique et qui servait de moyen de paiement des communications téléphoniques dans les t...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jeton de téléphone |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒə.tɔ̃ də te.le.fɔn\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “jeton de téléphone” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for jeton de téléphone is 18 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒə.tɔ̃ də te.le.fɔn\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Rondelle métallique plus ou moins de la taille d'une pièce de monnaie, possédant généralement un rainurage spécifique et qui servait de moyen de paiement des communications téléphoniques dans les t...".
No misspelling variants are generated for jeton de téléphone in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 de téléphone, spelled J-E-T-O-N- -D-E- -T-É-L-É-P-H-O-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Rondelle métallique plus ou moins de la taille d'une pièce de monnaie, possédant généralement un rainurage spécifique et qui servait de moyen de paiement des communications téléphoniques dans les taxiphones.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct French spelling is J-E-T-O-N- -D-E- -T-É-L-É-P-H-O-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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