jive
\dʒajv\
The verdict
“jive” is uncommon French (frequency #79,441 among 957 “J” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,441
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Danse latine de compétition descendant du lindy hop.
Corpus desk
Index FR-jive · jive · French
jive · rank #79,441 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,441
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH junien
Nearest frequency peer: junien (+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 « jive »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- jara
jara
20,565 corpus weight
- jeunots
jeunots
20,563 corpus weight
- jive
jive
20,560 corpus weight
- junien
junien
20,558 corpus weight
- kankan
kankan
20,556 corpus weight
- karo
karo
20,555 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « jive » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jive |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dʒajv\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #79,441 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « jive » en français
Rare enough to double-check
jive is uncommon French at frequency #79,441 among 957 “J” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dʒajv\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Danse latine de compétition descendant du lindy hop.".
Zero misspellings are on record for jive in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 jive, spelled J-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Danse latine de compétition descendant du lindy hop.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how jive appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La cinquième des cinq danses latines en compétition de danse sportive, le jive, y tient la place correspondant au rock’n’roll en danse de salon.
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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