jeûner
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#41,362
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
11
similar word pairs
jeûner is aFrenchverb. It means: Manger peu, manger moins qu’il ne faut, ou même ne pas manger du tout, soit par une privation volontaire, soit par une abstinence forcée et faute d’aliments. Pronounced \ʒø.ne\. Often confused with June and jouer.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jeûner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʒø.ne\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #41,362 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for jeûner is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒø.ne\. Corpus data places it at rank #41,362 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for jeûner, with forms such as "ejûner", "jenûer", and "jeuner". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "June", "jouer", "juger", 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 jeûner, spelled J-E-Û-N-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Manger peu, manger moins qu’il ne faut, ou même ne pas manger du tout, soit par une privation volontaire, soit par une abstinence forcée et faute d’aliments.
- 2S’abstenir ou être privé de certaines jouissances, etc.
- 3S’abstenir d’aliments ou de certains aliments, par esprit de dévotion, de mortification.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ejûner,jenûer,jeuner,jeûenr,jeûnerr,jeûnner,jeûnre,jjeûner,jûener
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for jeûner
Misspelling Variants of "jeûner"
Frequency rank: #41,362 in French
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