jointure externe
\ʒwɛ̃.tyʁ ɛks.tɛʁn\
The verdict
“jointure externe” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Dans les bases de données, jointure entre des tables, donnant l'une des deux en entier, plus les valeurs NULL de l'autre. Celle qui sera conservée entièrement est désignée par un côté : jointure (e...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jointure externe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒwɛ̃.tyʁ ɛks.tɛʁn\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “jointure externe” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for jointure externe is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒwɛ̃.tyʁ ɛks.tɛʁn\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Dans les bases de données, jointure entre des tables, donnant l'une des deux en entier, plus les valeurs NULL de l'autre. Celle qui sera conservée entièrement est désignée par un côté : jointure (e...".
No misspelling variants are generated for jointure externe in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 jointure externe, spelled J-O-I-N-T-U-R-E- -E-X-T-E-R-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Dans les bases de données, jointure entre des tables, donnant l'une des deux en entier, plus les valeurs NULL de l'autre. Celle qui sera conservée entièrement est désignée par un côté : jointure (externe) droite (⟕), gauche (⟖) ou totale (⟗).
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct French spelling is J-O-I-N-T-U-R-E- -E-X-T-E-R-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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