Jouin
\ʒwɛ̃\
The verdict
“Jouin” is uncommon French (frequency #82,146 among 957 “J” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,146
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-jouin · Jouin · French
Jouin · rank #82,146 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,146
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH Jennyfer
Nearest frequency peer: Jennyfer (-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 « Jouin »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- jacobites
jacobites
17,859 corpus weight
- jaille
jaille
17,858 corpus weight
- Jennyfer
Jennyfer
17,856 corpus weight
- Jouin
Jouin
17,855 corpus weight
- journals
journals
17,853 corpus weight
- Julianna
Julianna
17,850 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Jouin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Jouin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʒwɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #82,146 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Jouin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Jouin is uncommon French at frequency #82,146 among 957 “J” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ʒwɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Jouin, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Jouin, spelled J-O-U-I-N.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Jouin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au même moment, l’inspecteur Jouin (Jérémie Laheurte) tente d’identifier le cadavre d’un homme retrouvé dans les allées du bois de Boulogne.
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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