joules
\ʒul\
The verdict
“joules” is uncommon French (frequency #58,045 among 957 “J” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,045
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de joule.
Corpus desk
Index FR-joules · joules · French
joules · rank #58,045 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,045
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH joignit
Nearest frequency peer: joignit (-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 « joules »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- jarretière
jarretière
41,958 corpus weight
- joignit
joignit
41,957 corpus weight
- joules
joules
41,956 corpus weight
- jugeote
jugeote
41,955 corpus weight
- junker
junker
41,954 corpus weight
- jurait
jurait
41,952 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « joules » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | joules |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒul\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #58,045 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « joules » en français
Rare enough to double-check
joules is uncommon French at frequency #58,045 among 957 “J” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʒul\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de joule.".
Zero misspellings are on record for joules in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is joules, spelled J-O-U-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de joule.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how joules appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais ce n’est rien de comparable aux 90 mille milliards (90 000 000 000 000) de joules calculés à partir de la formule d’Einstein.
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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