job
French, noun/dʒɔb/
job is spelled J-O-B (3 letters) and appears 25 times per million words in written French, the 3,133rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Job is a French feminine noun meaning “job (employment role)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Petit emploi, petit boulot, souvent faiblement rémunéré et temporaire”.
What does job mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineinformalmasculinejob (employment role)
- 2
feminineinformalmasculinework
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Petit emploi, petit boulot, souvent faiblement rémunéré et temporaire. 2. Tout emploi rémunéré, boulot, travail. 3. Travail, mission, tâche. 4. Du temps des traitements par lots, enchaînement de programmes qui devaient être exécutés dans un ordre déterminé. (vocabulaire IBM)
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of job
- jobs plural
- djob
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce job?
- /dʒɔb/
- \dʒɔb\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is job in French?
job appears 25 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).