jongleurs

\ʒɔ̃.ɡlœʁ\

/\ʒɔ̃.ɡlœʁ\/ noun

The verdict

“jongleurs” is uncommon French (frequency #54,052 among 957 “J” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#54,052
frequency rank, French
957
“J” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de jongleur.

Corpus desk

Index FR-jongleurs · jongleurs · French

jongleurs · rank #54,052 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #54,052
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 957
  • PHOTO-FINISH jobin

Nearest frequency peer: jobin (-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 « jongleurs »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « jongleurs » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for jongleurs
PropertyValue
Headwordjongleurs
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʒɔ̃.ɡlœʁ\
Letters9
Frequency rank#54,052
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « jongleurs » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).jongleurstombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « jobin » (#54,051), « jouables » (#54,053), « JMJ » (#54,050). Parmi 957 lemmes en « J », « jongleurs » est au #54,052. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

jongleurs is uncommon French at frequency #54,052 among 957 “J” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʒɔ̃.ɡlœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de jongleur.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for jongleurs, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is jongleurs, spelled J-O-N-G-L-E-U-R-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de jongleur.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how jongleurs appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Les sachems et les jongleurs présidoient au travail ; les jeunes hommes rôdoient autour du champ commun et chassoient les oiseaux par leurs cris.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "jongleurs"?
"jongleurs" is spelled J-O-N-G-L-E-U-R-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ʒɔ̃.ɡlœʁ\.
What does "jongleurs" mean?
As a noun, "jongleurs" means: Pluriel de jongleur.
How do you pronounce "jongleurs"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "jongleurs" is \ʒɔ̃.ɡlœʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "jongleurs", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list