jigsaw
\ˈd͡ʒɪɡˌsɔː\
The verdict
“jigsaw” is uncommon French (frequency #84,925 among 957 “J” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,925
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Couper à la scie sauteuse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-jigsaw · jigsaw · French
jigsaw · rank #84,925 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,925
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH jars
Nearest frequency peer: jars (-2 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 « jigsaw »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- jacinthes
jacinthes
15,080 corpus weight
- jars
jars
15,078 corpus weight
- jigsaw
jigsaw
15,076 corpus weight
- Joaquín
Joaquín
15,074 corpus weight
- Jodoigne
Jodoigne
15,073 corpus weight
- jurerait
jurerait
15,070 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « jigsaw » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jigsaw |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈd͡ʒɪɡˌsɔː\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #84,925 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « jigsaw » en français
Rare enough to double-check
jigsaw is uncommon French at frequency #84,925 among 957 “J” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈd͡ʒɪɡˌsɔː\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Couper à la scie sauteuse.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for jigsaw, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is jigsaw, spelled J-I-G-S-A-W.
Definition
- 1Couper à la scie sauteuse.
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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