joc
The verdict
“joc” is uncommon French (frequency #94,948 among 957 “J” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,948
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Juchoir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-joc · joc · French
joc · rank #94,948 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,948
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH Joanny
Nearest frequency peer: Joanny (-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 « joc »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Jakubowicz
Jakubowicz
5,058 corpus weight
- Jeanjean
Jeanjean
5,056 corpus weight
- Joanny
Joanny
5,054 corpus weight
- joc
joc
5,053 corpus weight
- joggeur
joggeur
5,052 corpus weight
- junta
junta
5,051 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « joc » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | joc |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #94,948 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « joc » en français
Rare enough to double-check
joc is uncommon French at frequency #94,948 among 957 “J” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
joc has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is joc, spelled J-O-C.
Definition
- 1Juchoir.
- 2Arrêt, repos d'un moulin à eau ou à vent.
- 3Timon.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how joc appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Être à joc, être au repos, sur le juchoir, en parlant des poules.
Mettre le moulin à joc, l’arrêter.
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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