jobard
\ʒɔ.baʁ\
The verdict
“jobard” is uncommon French (frequency #78,541 among 957 “J” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,541
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Simple d’esprit, crédule, niais.
Corpus desk
Index FR-jobard · jobard · French
jobard · rank #78,541 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,541
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH JLD
Nearest frequency peer: JLD (-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 « jobard »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- journelleme…
journellement
21,457 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « jobard » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jobard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʒɔ.baʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #78,541 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « jobard » en français
Rare enough to double-check
jobard is uncommon French at frequency #78,541 among 957 “J” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʒɔ.baʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Simple d’esprit, crédule, niais.".
jobard doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is jobard, spelled J-O-B-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Simple d’esprit, crédule, niais.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how jobard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
– Si vous trouvez plaisant d’être jobard… – Dans jobard il y a Job, mon ami.
« Décidément, vous êtes le plus curieux garçon que je connaisse… Il y a en vous du paladin et du jobard, si vous me permettez de vous le dire… Chevalier à midi… Bouffon à minuit… Vous excellez dans tous les emplois !…
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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