jh
\ʒo\
The verdict
“jh” is uncommon French (frequency #58,704 among 957 “J” headwords), classed as a typographic variant. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,704
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Orthographe par contrainte typographique par système h de ĵ.
Corpus desk
Index FR-jh · jh · French
jh · rank #58,704 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,704
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH Jerzy
Nearest frequency peer: Jerzy (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « jh »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Izmir
Izmir
41,301 corpus weight
- jalonnée
jalonnée
41,300 corpus weight
- jas
jas
41,299 corpus weight
- Jerzy
Jerzy
41,298 corpus weight
- jh
jh
41,297 corpus weight
- jockeys
jockeys
41,295 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « jh » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jh |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Typographic variant |
| IPA | \ʒo\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #58,704 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « jh » en français
Rare enough to double-check
jh is uncommon French at frequency #58,704 among 957 “J” headwords, classed as atypographic variant, transcribed \ʒo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Orthographe par contrainte typographique par système h de ĵ.".
jh has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is jh, spelled J-H.
Definition
- 1Orthographe par contrainte typographique par système h de ĵ.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.