jeune temps
\ʒœn tɑ̃\
The verdict
“jeune temps” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (Toujours précédé d'un adjectif possessif) Période de la jeunesse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-jeune-temps · jeune temps · French
jeune temps · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "J" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jeune temps |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒœn tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
jeune temps is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʒœn tɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "(Toujours précédé d'un adjectif possessif) Période de la jeunesse.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for jeune temps, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is jeune temps, spelled J-E-U-N-E- -T-E-M-P-S.
Definition
- 1(Toujours précédé d'un adjectif possessif) Période de la jeunesse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how jeune temps appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Après dîner, l’Empereur s’est amusé à résoudre des problèmes de géométrie et d’algèbre : cela lui rappelait son jeune temps, disait-il, et il nous étonnait fort de l’avoir si peu oublié.
Synonyms
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.