jouions
\ʒu.jɔ̃\
The verdict
“jouions” is uncommon French (frequency #76,712 among 957 “J” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,712
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de jouer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-jouions · jouions · French
jouions · rank #76,712 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,712
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH Josias
Nearest frequency peer: Josias (-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 « jouions »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- jumel
jumel
23,286 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « jouions » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jouions |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʒu.jɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #76,712 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « jouions » en français
Rare enough to double-check
jouions is uncommon French at frequency #76,712 among 957 “J” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʒu.jɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for jouions, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 jouions, spelled J-O-U-I-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de jouer.
- 2Première personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de jouer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how jouions appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous ne jouions pas ensemble et nos livres n’étaient pas les mêmes.
Il a décidé que nous allions appâter l’ours, qui faisait bien cinq cents livres, et l’attirer dans une combe où nous jouions souvent et qui se trouve dans la forêt.
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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