jeunesse

/\ʒœ.nɛs\/ noun

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.

Key facts for jeunesse
PropertyValue
Headwordjeunesse
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʒœ.nɛs\
Letters8
Frequency rank#1,597
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of jeunesse in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Partie de la vie qui est entre l’enfance et l’âge des responsabilités, adolescence.
  2. 2
    Partie de la vie qui est au tout début de l'âge adulte.
  3. 3
    Le fait d’être jeune ; les facultés intellectuelles, les sentiments qui se conservent jeunes même dans un âge avancé.
  4. 4
    Ceux qui sont dans cet âge, et même ceux qui sont encore dans l’enfance.
  5. 5
    Ensemble des personnes jeunes d'une collectivité, formant la relève.
  6. 6
    Personne jeune, garçon ou fille.
  7. 7
    Jeune fille prostituée.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ejunesse,jenuesse,jeuensse,jeunese,jeuneses,jeunnesse,jeunsese,jjeunesse,juenesse

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for jeunesse

Misspelling Variants of "jeunesse"

ejunesse8jenuesse8jeuensse8jeunese7jeuneses8jeunnesse9jeunsese8jjeunesse9
Misspelling Variants of "jeunesse"

Frequency rank: #1,597 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "jeunesse"?
"jeunesse" is spelled J-E-U-N-E-S-S-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʒœ.nɛs\.
What does "jeunesse" mean?
As a noun, "jeunesse" means: Partie de la vie qui est entre l’enfance et l’âge des responsabilités, adolescence.
What words are commonly confused with "jeunesse"?
"jeunesse" is commonly confused with "jeunesses". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "jeunesse"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "jeunesse" is \ʒœ.nɛs\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "jeunesse" come from?
"jeunesse" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.