Josy
\ʒo.zi\
The verdict
“Josy” is uncommon French (frequency #63,112 among 957 “J” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,112
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom féminin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-josy · Josy · French
Josy · rank #63,112 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,112
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH jonchent
Nearest frequency peer: jonchent (-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 « Josy »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Joliot
Joliot
36,891 corpus weight
- jonchent
jonchent
36,890 corpus weight
- Josy
Josy
36,889 corpus weight
- jubilatoire
jubilatoire
36,888 corpus weight
- jubé
jubé
36,887 corpus weight
- Karate
Karate
36,885 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Josy » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Josy |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʒo.zi\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #63,112 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Josy » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Josy is uncommon French at frequency #63,112 among 957 “J” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ʒo.zi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prénom féminin.".
Josy doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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 documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Josy, spelled J-O-S-Y.
Definition
- 1Prénom féminin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Josy appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Josy à ma droite, toute gironde dans son manteau de skungs, Lola en oppossum, à ma gauche, devaient me donner l’air d’un micheton prêt au régal.
Je n’y voyais strictement rien et je savais que derrière chaque porte ou chaque meuble pouvait se cacher un type enragé avec un Sig Sauer, aussi j’ai pris la tête du peloton en avançant à tâtons, pendant que Josy fermait la marche.
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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