jiro
\ˈʒi.rɔ\
The verdict
“jiro” is uncommon French (frequency #70,763 among 957 “J” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,763
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tour ((autour d’autre chose).
Corpus desk
Index FR-jiro · jiro · French
jiro · rank #70,763 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,763
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH Jett
Nearest frequency peer: Jett (-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 « jiro »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- jain
jain
29,242 corpus weight
- Jenn
Jenn
29,240 corpus weight
- Jett
Jett
29,239 corpus weight
- jiro
jiro
29,238 corpus weight
- jonchée
jonchée
29,236 corpus weight
- jonquille
jonquille
29,235 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « jiro » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jiro |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈʒi.rɔ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #70,763 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « jiro » en français
Rare enough to double-check
jiro is uncommon French at frequency #70,763 among 957 “J” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈʒi.rɔ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tour ((autour d’autre chose).".
jiro doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is jiro, spelled J-I-R-O.
Definition
- 1Tour ((autour d’autre chose).
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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