jonque
\ʒɔ̃k\
The verdict
“jonque” is uncommon French (frequency #81,281 among 957 “J” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,281
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Type d’embarcation à trois mâts utilisée en Extrême-Orient pour le transport de marchandises ou la pêche et avec des lattes en bambou pour tendre les voiles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-jonque · jonque · French
jonque · rank #81,281 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,281
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH joignait
Nearest frequency peer: joignait (-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 « jonque »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- JAF
JAF
18,723 corpus weight
- Jaoui
Jaoui
18,722 corpus weight
- joignait
joignait
18,721 corpus weight
- jonque
jonque
18,720 corpus weight
- jouisse
jouisse
18,719 corpus weight
- judicieuses
judicieuses
18,718 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « jonque » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jonque |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒɔ̃k\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #81,281 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « jonque » en français
Rare enough to double-check
jonque is uncommon French at frequency #81,281 among 957 “J” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʒɔ̃k\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Type d’embarcation à trois mâts utilisée en Extrême-Orient pour le transport de marchandises ou la pêche et avec des lattes en bambou pour tendre les voiles.".
Zero misspellings are on record for jonque in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is jonque, spelled J-O-N-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Type d’embarcation à trois mâts utilisée en Extrême-Orient pour le transport de marchandises ou la pêche et avec des lattes en bambou pour tendre les voiles.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how jonque appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Celui qu’il voyait n’était plein que de jonques — et de torpilleurs.
Dîner sur les pontons de bois, le long de la mer, quand le vent du soir balance les lanternes et que les crabes au chilli pèlent la langue. On s’attend à voir passer une jonque aux voiles de paille, quelque bâtiment en bois de fer, uniquement construit « by the eye and the rule of the thumb », que le taikong dirige grâce à un formidable gouvernail et selo…
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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