jonquille
\ʒɔ̃.kij\
The verdict
“jonquille” is uncommon French (frequency #70,766 among 957 “J” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,766
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plante du genre des narcisses (Narcissus jonquilla L., 1753), spontanée en Europe, que l’on cultive aussi dans les jardins pour son élégance et son parfum.
Corpus desk
Index FR-jonquille · jonquille · French
jonquille · rank #70,766 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,766
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH jonchée
Nearest frequency peer: jonchée (-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 « jonquille »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- jiro
jiro
29,238 corpus weight
- jonchée
jonchée
29,236 corpus weight
- jonquille
jonquille
29,235 corpus weight
- jouerez
jouerez
29,234 corpus weight
- joviale
joviale
29,233 corpus weight
- jubiler
jubiler
29,232 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « jonquille » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jonquille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒɔ̃.kij\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #70,766 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « jonquille » en français
Rare enough to double-check
jonquille is uncommon French at frequency #70,766 among 957 “J” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʒɔ̃.kij\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for jonquille in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is jonquille, spelled J-O-N-Q-U-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Plante du genre des narcisses (Narcissus jonquilla L., 1753), spontanée en Europe, que l’on cultive aussi dans les jardins pour son élégance et son parfum.
- 2Fleur de cette plante.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how jonquille appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À chaque escale à Amsterdam, je filais au marché aux fleurs du Singel ou chez un vieil horticulteur de Schoorl pour lui rapporter des oignons de jonquilles, de jacinthes, de muscaris, d'amaryllis.
Jonquille simple, double. Odeur de jonquille. Essence de jonquille.
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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