jonchent
\ʒɔ̃ʃ\
The verdict
“jonchent” is uncommon French (frequency #63,111 among 957 “J” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,111
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de joncher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-jonchent · jonchent · French
jonchent · rank #63,111 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,111
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH Joliot
Nearest frequency peer: Joliot (-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 « jonchent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- jubé
jubé
36,887 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « jonchent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jonchent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʒɔ̃ʃ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #63,111 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « jonchent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
jonchent is uncommon French at frequency #63,111 among 957 “J” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʒɔ̃ʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
jonchent doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is jonchent, spelled J-O-N-C-H-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de joncher.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de joncher.
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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