jig
\dʒiɡ\
The verdict
“jig” is uncommon French (frequency #90,848 among 957 “J” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,848
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Leurre utilisé pour une pêche proche de la dandine, avec des mouvements brusques et verticaux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-jig · jig · French
jig · rank #90,848 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,848
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH jeopardy
Nearest frequency peer: jeopardy (-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 « jig »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- jau
jau
9,155 corpus weight
- jeopardy
jeopardy
9,154 corpus weight
- jig
jig
9,153 corpus weight
- jogger
jogger
9,152 corpus weight
- jonglage
jonglage
9,151 corpus weight
- jonglant
jonglant
9,150 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « jig » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jig |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dʒiɡ\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #90,848 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « jig » en français
Rare enough to double-check
jig is uncommon French at frequency #90,848 among 957 “J” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dʒiɡ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Leurre utilisé pour une pêche proche de la dandine, avec des mouvements brusques et verticaux.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for jig, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is jig, spelled J-I-G.
Definition
- 1Leurre utilisé pour une pêche proche de la dandine, avec des mouvements brusques et verticaux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how jig appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les jigs s’animent sur le plan de la verticalité à l’inverse des pêches au lancer dans le déroulement desquelles le leurre évolue sur le plan horizontal. L’animation spécifique du jig consiste à secouer son leurre par des mouvements de scions aussi amples que rapides.
La pêche au jig, ou jigging, est une technique assez brutale, sans finesse, mais qui donne d’excellents résultats en mer et permet de prendre de beaux poissons. … Le jig est un leurre de métal, lourd, que l’on remonte à toute vitesse, avec une animation spécifique (voir vidéo) qui rend fous les carnassiers.
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.
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