jonglage
\ʒɔ̃.ɡlaʒ\
The verdict
“jonglage” is uncommon French (frequency #90,850 among 957 “J” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,850
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de jongler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-jonglage · jonglage · French
jonglage · rank #90,850 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,850
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH jogger
Nearest frequency peer: jogger (-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 « jonglage »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- jeopardy
jeopardy
9,154 corpus weight
- jig
jig
9,153 corpus weight
- jogger
jogger
9,152 corpus weight
- jonglage
jonglage
9,151 corpus weight
- jonglant
jonglant
9,150 corpus weight
- jupette
jupette
9,149 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « jonglage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jonglage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒɔ̃.ɡlaʒ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #90,850 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « jonglage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
jonglage is uncommon French at frequency #90,850 among 957 “J” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʒɔ̃.ɡlaʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Action de jongler.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for jonglage, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is jonglage, spelled J-O-N-G-L-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Action de jongler.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how jonglage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On dit jonglerie plutôt que jonglage qui ne figure certes pas dans le dictionnaire mais qui est le mot que les jongleurs utilisent depuis toujours.
Nous parlerons des exercices de jonglage ultérieurement, nous essayons ici simplement d’obtenir d’une manière agréable une suite de contractions d’une main tandis que l’autre reste immobile.
This word in other languages
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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