Josias
\ʒo.zjɑs\
The verdict
“Josias” is uncommon French (frequency #76,711 among 957 “J” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,711
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Roi de Juda au VIIᵉ siècle avant Jésus-Christ.
Corpus desk
Index FR-josias · Josias · French
Josias · rank #76,711 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,711
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH joignons
Nearest frequency peer: joignons (-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 « Josias »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- joggeuse
joggeuse
23,293 corpus weight
- joignons
joignons
23,291 corpus weight
- Josias
Josias
23,290 corpus weight
- jouions
jouions
23,289 corpus weight
- jugerai
jugerai
23,288 corpus weight
- Juliers
Juliers
23,287 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Josias » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Josias |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʒo.zjɑs\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #76,711 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Josias » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Josias is uncommon French at frequency #76,711 among 957 “J” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ʒo.zjɑs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Roi de Juda au VIIᵉ siècle avant Jésus-Christ.".
Josias has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Josias, spelled J-O-S-I-A-S.
Definition
- 1Roi de Juda au VIIᵉ siècle avant Jésus-Christ.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Josias appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
… Josias (640-609 av. notre ère) met en place une réforme religieuse en combattant la tentation polythéiste des Juifs.
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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