jointure
\ʒwɛ̃.tyʁ\
The verdict
“jointure” is uncommon French (frequency #60,126 among 957 “J” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,126
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Endroit où deux parties se joignent.
Corpus desk
Index FR-jointure · jointure · French
jointure · rank #60,126 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,126
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH joigne
Nearest frequency peer: joigne (-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 « jointure »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Joana
Joana
39,877 corpus weight
- joigne
joigne
39,876 corpus weight
- jointure
jointure
39,875 corpus weight
- jokers
jokers
39,874 corpus weight
- jonquilles
jonquilles
39,873 corpus weight
- Josaphat
Josaphat
39,872 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « jointure » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jointure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒwɛ̃.tyʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #60,126 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « jointure » en français
Rare enough to double-check
jointure is uncommon French at frequency #60,126 among 957 “J” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʒwɛ̃.tyʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for jointure in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is jointure, spelled J-O-I-N-T-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1Endroit où deux parties se joignent.
- 2Endroit où deux parties se joignent.
- 3Endroit où deux parties se joignent.
- 4Endroit où deux parties se joignent.
- 5Joncture.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how jointure appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le vieil employé serrait l’une dans l’autre ses mains dont les jointures craquaient comme du bois sec.
M. Dandurand, jadis Mᵉ Dandurand, qui avait habité un des plus vieux hôtels particuliers de Fontenay, avait la manie de faire craquer ses doigts aux jointures mal huilées. — Cela vous serait égal de laisser vos phalanges en paix et de me dire pourquoi vous vous êtes présenté à mon bureau ? soupira Maigret en rallumant sa pipe éteinte.
Synonyms
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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