jinx
\dʒɪŋks\
The verdict
“jinx” is uncommon French (frequency #83,069 among 957 “J” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,069
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Maléfice, malédiction.
Corpus desk
Index FR-jinx · jinx · French
jinx · rank #83,069 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,069
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH joignables
Nearest frequency peer: joignables (+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 « jinx »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Jahre
Jahre
16,936 corpus weight
- jalouser
jalouser
16,935 corpus weight
- jinx
jinx
16,932 corpus weight
- joignables
joignables
16,931 corpus weight
- jouira
jouira
16,930 corpus weight
- jovialité
jovialité
16,928 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « jinx » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jinx |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dʒɪŋks\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #83,069 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « jinx » en français
Rare enough to double-check
jinx is uncommon French at frequency #83,069 among 957 “J” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dʒɪŋks\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Maléfice, malédiction.".
No misspelling variants are generated for jinx in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is jinx, spelled J-I-N-X.
Definition
- 1Maléfice, malédiction.
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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