Josaphat
The verdict
“Josaphat” is uncommon French (frequency #60,129 among 957 “J” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,129
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Roi de Juda au début du IXᵉ siècle av. J.-C.. Son règne fut marqué par un rapprochement entre les royaumes de Juda et d’Israël.
Corpus desk
Index FR-josaphat · Josaphat · French
Josaphat · rank #60,129 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,129
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH jonquilles
Nearest frequency peer: jonquilles (-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 « Josaphat »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- joigne
joigne
39,876 corpus weight
- jointure
jointure
39,875 corpus weight
- jokers
jokers
39,874 corpus weight
- jonquilles
jonquilles
39,873 corpus weight
- Josaphat
Josaphat
39,872 corpus weight
- Kairouan
Kairouan
39,868 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Josaphat » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Josaphat |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #60,129 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Josaphat » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Josaphat is uncommon French at frequency #60,129 among 957 “J” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Josaphat, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Josaphat, spelled J-O-S-A-P-H-A-T.
Definition
- 1Roi de Juda au début du IXᵉ siècle av. J.-C.. Son règne fut marqué par un rapprochement entre les royaumes de Juda et d’Israël.
- 2Jugement dernier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Josaphat appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La terreur de Yahweh s’empara de tous les royaumes des pays qui environnaient Juda, et ils ne firent pas la guerre à Josaphat. Des philistins apportèrent à Josaphat des présents et un tribut en argent ; les Arabes aussi lui amenèrent du bétail, sept mille sept cents béliers et sept mille sept cents boucs. Josaphat était en voie de s’élever au plus haut de…
Vallée de Josaphat, vallon de la Judée où, selon l’Écriture, les morts ressuscités se rassembleront et seront jugés.
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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