joule
\ʒul\
The verdict
“joule” is uncommon French (frequency #55,387 among 47,938 “J” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,387
- frequency rank, French
- 47,938
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - 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 ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | joule |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒul\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #55,387 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “joule” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
joule is uncommon French at frequency #55,387 among 47,938 “J” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʒul\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is joule, spelled J-O-U-L-E.
Definition
- 1Unité 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
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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Using “joule”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is J-O-U-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʒul\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.