joliet
\ʒɔ.ljɛ\
The verdict
“joliet” is uncommon French (frequency #96,037 among 957 “J” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,037
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est assez joli.
Corpus desk
Index FR-joliet · joliet · French
joliet · rank #96,037 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,037
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH Johnstone
Nearest frequency peer: Johnstone (-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 « joliet »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- jez
jez
3,967 corpus weight
- Johnstone
Johnstone
3,965 corpus weight
- joliet
joliet
3,964 corpus weight
- journalopes
journalopes
3,962 corpus weight
- juchés
juchés
3,961 corpus weight
- jumeler
jumeler
3,960 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « joliet » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | joliet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʒɔ.ljɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #96,037 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « joliet » en français
Rare enough to double-check
joliet is uncommon French at frequency #96,037 among 957 “J” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʒɔ.ljɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui est assez joli.".
Zero misspellings are on record for joliet in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is joliet, spelled J-O-L-I-E-T.
Definition
- 1Qui est assez joli.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how joliet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle est joliette.
Oh ! Qu'ils étaient donc joliets Les petits mouchoirs de Cholet.
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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