jeune femme

/\ʒœn fam\/ noun

Letters

11 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

jeune femme is aFrenchnoun. It means: Femme entre l’âge adolescent et adulte ou jeune adulte encore célibataire. Pronounced \ʒœn fam\.

Key facts for jeune femme
PropertyValue
Headwordjeune femme
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʒœn fam\
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

jeune femme is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for jeune femme is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒœn fam\. 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: "Femme entre l’âge adolescent et adulte ou jeune adulte encore célibataire.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for jeune femme in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 jeune femme, spelled J-E-U-N-E- -F-E-M-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Femme entre l’âge adolescent et adulte ou jeune adulte encore célibataire.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "jeune femme"?
"jeune femme" is spelled J-E-U-N-E- -F-E-M-M-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʒœn fam\.
What does "jeune femme" mean?
As a noun, "jeune femme" means: Femme entre l’âge adolescent et adulte ou jeune adulte encore célibataire.
How do you pronounce "jeune femme"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "jeune femme" is \ʒœn fam\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "jeune femme" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.