jeune
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#338
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
jeune is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui est dans une phase au commencement de sa vie ou de son développement ; qui n’est guère avancé en âge, en parlant des humains, des animaux ou des végétaux. Pronounced \ʒœn\. It ranks #338 in French word frequency. Often confused with jeux and joue.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jeune |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \ʒœn\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #338 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for jeune is 5 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒœn\. Corpus data places it at rank #338 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for jeune, with forms such as "ejune", "jenue", and "jeuen". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "jeux", "joue", "juge", 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 jeune, spelled J-E-U-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui est dans une phase au commencement de sa vie ou de son développement ; qui n’est guère avancé en âge, en parlant des humains, des animaux ou des végétaux.
- 2Qui n’a pas l’âge habituel par rapport aux emplois, aux dignités qu’on ne donne ordinairement qu’à des hommes faits ou à des personnes déjà avancées en âge.
- 3Qui a encore quelque chose de l’ardeur, de la vivacité et de l’agrément de la jeunesse, au-delà de l'âge réel.
- 4Qui est propre à une personne dans la jeunesse.
- 5Qui ne sied qu’à des personnes jeunes.
- 6Qui est nouveau, qui n’existe que depuis récemment.
- 7Qui manque d’expérience, de maturité ; qui est étourdi, évaporé.
- 8Qualifie un taillis, des baliveaux, d’un an.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ejune,jenue,jeuen,jeunne,jjeune,juene
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for jeune
Misspelling Variants of "jeune"
Frequency rank: #338 in French
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