Jocaste
\ʒɔ.kast\
The verdict
“Jocaste” is uncommon French (frequency #85,841 among 957 “J” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,841
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Épouse de Laïos, puis de son propre fils, Œdipe, de qui elle aura quatre enfants, deux garçons, Étéocle et Polynice, et deux filles, Ismène et Antigone.
Corpus desk
Index FR-jocaste · Jocaste · French
Jocaste · rank #85,841 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,841
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH jonchaient
Nearest frequency peer: jonchaient (+2 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 « Jocaste »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- jacking
jacking
14,166 corpus weight
- jacobus
jacobus
14,165 corpus weight
- JDC
JDC
14,163 corpus weight
- Jocaste
Jocaste
14,160 corpus weight
- jonchaient
jonchaient
14,158 corpus weight
- judiciarisa…
judiciarisation
14,155 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Jocaste » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Jocaste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʒɔ.kast\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #85,841 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Jocaste » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Jocaste is uncommon French at frequency #85,841 among 957 “J” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ʒɔ.kast\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Épouse de Laïos, puis de son propre fils, Œdipe, de qui elle aura quatre enfants, deux garçons, Étéocle et Polynice, et deux filles, Ismène et Antigone.".
Jocaste doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Jocaste, spelled J-O-C-A-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Épouse de Laïos, puis de son propre fils, Œdipe, de qui elle aura quatre enfants, deux garçons, Étéocle et Polynice, et deux filles, Ismène et Antigone.
This word in other languages
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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