joule

/\ʒul\/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#55,387

in French word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

joule is aFrenchnoun. It means: Unité de mesure d’énergie du Système international, égale au travail produit par une force d’un newton dont le point d’application se déplace d’un mètre dans la direction de la force, ou encore au ... Pronounced \ʒul\.

Key facts for joule
PropertyValue
Headwordjoule
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʒul\
Letters5
Frequency rank#55,387
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of joule in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for joule is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒul\. Corpus data places it at rank #55,387 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Unité de mesure d’énergie du Système international, égale au travail produit par une force d’un newton dont le point d’application se déplace d’un mètre dans la direction de la force, ou encore au ...".

No misspelling variants are generated for joule in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is joule, spelled J-O-U-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Unité de mesure d’énergie du Système international, égale au travail produit par une force d’un newton dont le point d’application se déplace d’un mètre dans la direction de la force, ou encore au travail fourni par un courant électrique d’un ampère traversant une résistance d’un ohm pendant une seconde. Son symbole est J.

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #55,387 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "joule"?
"joule" is spelled J-O-U-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʒul\.
What does "joule" mean?
As a noun, "joule" means: Unité de mesure d’énergie du Système international, égale au travail produit par une force d’un newton dont le point d’application se déplace d’un mètre dans la direction de la force, ou encore au ...
How do you pronounce "joule"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "joule" is \ʒul\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "joule" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.