Joliot
The verdict
“Joliot” is uncommon French (frequency #63,110 among 957 “J” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,110
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-joliot · Joliot · French
Joliot · rank #63,110 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,110
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH jonchent
Nearest frequency peer: jonchent (+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 « Joliot »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- jacque
jacque
36,895 corpus weight
- japonnais
japonnais
36,894 corpus weight
- Joliot
Joliot
36,891 corpus weight
- jonchent
jonchent
36,890 corpus weight
- Josy
Josy
36,889 corpus weight
- jubilatoire
jubilatoire
36,888 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Joliot » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Joliot |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #63,110 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Joliot » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Joliot is uncommon French at frequency #63,110 among 957 “J” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Joliot in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Joliot, spelled J-O-L-I-O-T.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Joliot appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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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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