JLD
The verdict
“JLD” is uncommon French (frequency #78,540 among 957 “J” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,540
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - En France, juge des libertés et de la détention, qui est chargé de statuer pour le placement en détention provisoire, ou en cas de demandes de mise en liberté.
Corpus desk
Index FR-jld · JLD · French
JLD · rank #78,540 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,540
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH jobard
Nearest frequency peer: jobard (+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 « JLD »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Jeanneney
Jeanneney
21,465 corpus weight
- Jiangsu
Jiangsu
21,463 corpus weight
- JLD
JLD
21,461 corpus weight
- jobard
jobard
21,460 corpus weight
- joignirent
joignirent
21,459 corpus weight
- Josiah
Josiah
21,458 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « JLD » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | JLD |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #78,540 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « JLD » en français
Rare enough to double-check
JLD is uncommon French at frequency #78,540 among 957 “J” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "En France, juge des libertés et de la détention, qui est chargé de statuer pour le placement en détention provisoire, ou en cas de demandes de mise en liberté.".
JLD doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is JLD, spelled J-L-D.
Definition
- 1En France, juge des libertés et de la détention, qui est chargé de statuer pour le placement en détention provisoire, ou en cas de demandes de mise en liberté.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how JLD appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il a finalement été remis en liberté par le juge des libertés et de la détention (JLD) et sera jugé pour violences aggravées le 18 septembre.
Le juge des libertés et de la détention (JLD) est un magistrat expérimenté du siège du tribunal judiciaire.
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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