jonc
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#41,850
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
jonc is aFrenchnoun. It means: Nom donné à des plantes à tige droite et flexible, qui croissent ordinairement le long des eaux, ou même dans l’eau, et dont plusieurs espèces servaient à faire des liens, des nattes, des cannes, e... Pronounced \ʒɔ̃\. Often confused with joy and jos.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jonc |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #41,850 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for jonc is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #41,850 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for jonc, with forms such as "jjonc", "jnoc", and "jocn". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "joy", "jos", "jou", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 jonc, spelled J-O-N-C, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Nom donné à des plantes à tige droite et flexible, qui croissent ordinairement le long des eaux, ou même dans l’eau, et dont plusieurs espèces servaient à faire des liens, des nattes, des cannes, etc., du genre Juncus ou qui rappellent ce genre par leur apparence.
- 2Canne de jonc.
- 3Sorte de bague dont le cercle est égal partout.
- 4Or, objet en or. Par métonymie avec les alliances faites d'un jonc d'or.
- 5Pénis.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: jjonc,jnoc,jocn,joncc,jonnc,ojnc
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Misspelling Variants of "jonc"
Frequency rank: #41,850 in French
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