jeunesse
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,597
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
jeunesse is aFrenchnoun. It means: Partie de la vie qui est entre l’enfance et l’âge des responsabilités, adolescence. Pronounced \ʒœ.nɛs\. It ranks #1,597 in French word frequency. Often confused with jeunesses.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jeunesse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒœ.nɛs\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #1,597 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for jeunesse is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒœ.nɛs\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,597 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for jeunesse, with forms such as "ejunesse", "jenuesse", and "jeuensse". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "jeunesses", 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 jeunesse, spelled J-E-U-N-E-S-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Partie de la vie qui est entre l’enfance et l’âge des responsabilités, adolescence.
- 2Partie de la vie qui est au tout début de l'âge adulte.
- 3Le fait d’être jeune ; les facultés intellectuelles, les sentiments qui se conservent jeunes même dans un âge avancé.
- 4Ceux qui sont dans cet âge, et même ceux qui sont encore dans l’enfance.
- 5Ensemble des personnes jeunes d'une collectivité, formant la relève.
- 6Personne jeune, garçon ou fille.
- 7Jeune fille prostituée.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ejunesse,jenuesse,jeuensse,jeunese,jeuneses,jeunnesse,jeunsese,jjeunesse,juenesse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "jeunesse"
Frequency rank: #1,597 in French
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