job

/\dʒɔb\/ noun

Letters

3 characters

Frequency Rank

#3,145

in French word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

job is aFrenchnoun. It means: Petit emploi, petit boulot, souvent faiblement rémunéré et temporaire. Pronounced \dʒɔb\. It ranks #3,145 in French word frequency. Often confused with JT and ju.

Key facts for job
PropertyValue
Headwordjob
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\dʒɔb\
Letters3
Frequency rank#3,145
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of job in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for job is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dʒɔb\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,145 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for job in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "JT", "ju", "JP", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is job, spelled J-O-B, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Petit emploi, petit boulot, souvent faiblement rémunéré et temporaire.
  2. 2
    Tout emploi rémunéré, boulot, travail.
  3. 3
    Travail, mission, tâche.
  4. 4
    Du temps des traitements par lots, enchaînement de programmes qui devaient être exécutés dans un ordre déterminé. (vocabulaire IBM)

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #3,145 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "job"?
"job" is spelled J-O-B. The IPA pronunciation is \dʒɔb\.
What does "job" mean?
As a noun, "job" means: Petit emploi, petit boulot, souvent faiblement rémunéré et temporaire.
What words are commonly confused with "job"?
"job" is commonly confused with "JT", "ju", "JP". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "job"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "job" is \dʒɔb\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "job" come from?
"job" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.