jongler
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#30,674
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
jongler is aFrenchverb. It means: Faire sauter plusieurs boules ou autres objets, qui s’entrecroisent en passant d’une main, voire d’un pied, dans l’autre. Pronounced \ʒɔ̃.ɡle\. Often confused with jungle and Jongleur.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jongler |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʒɔ̃.ɡle\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #30,674 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for jongler is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒɔ̃.ɡle\. Corpus data places it at rank #30,674 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for jongler, with forms such as "jjongler", "jnogler", and "jognler". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "jungle", "Jongleur", "jingle", 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 jongler, spelled J-O-N-G-L-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Faire sauter plusieurs boules ou autres objets, qui s’entrecroisent en passant d’une main, voire d’un pied, dans l’autre.
- 2Faire sauter plusieurs boules ou autres objets, qui s’entrecroisent en passant d’une main, voire d’un pied, dans l’autre.
- 3Faire des tours de toute sorte.
- 4Discuter des difficultés ou les résoudre en se jouant.
- 5Exposer des idées, des abstractions, avec une brillante facilité.
- 6Utiliser plusieurs objets différents pour une même activité (avec une notion de dextérité).
- 7Penser, méditer, ruminer un projet, un problème, une idée.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: jjongler,jnogler,jognler,jongelr,jonggler,jonglerr,jongller,jonglre,jonlger,jonngler,ojngler
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for jongler
Misspelling Variants of "jongler"
Frequency rank: #30,674 in French
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