Jouan
\ʒu.ɑ̃\
The verdict
“Jouan” is uncommon French (frequency #71,636 among 957 “J” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,636
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-jouan · Jouan · French
Jouan · rank #71,636 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,636
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH Jost
Nearest frequency peer: Jost (-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 « Jouan »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- jodi
jodi
28,368 corpus weight
- jordaniens
jordaniens
28,367 corpus weight
- Jost
Jost
28,366 corpus weight
- Jouan
Jouan
28,365 corpus weight
- jugerait
jugerait
28,364 corpus weight
- jures
jures
28,363 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Jouan » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Jouan |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʒu.ɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #71,636 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Jouan » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Jouan is uncommon French at frequency #71,636 among 957 “J” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ʒu.ɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Jouan in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Jouan, spelled J-O-U-A-N.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Jouan appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Juliette Jouan, âgée de seulement 20 ans, est la découverte de L’Envol, de Pietro Marcello.
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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