journalist
\ˈd͡ʒɜː.nə.lɪst\
The verdict
“journalist” is uncommon French (frequency #98,133 among 957 “J” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,133
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Journaliste, reporter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-journalist · journalist · French
journalist · rank #98,133 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,133
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH jouiront
Nearest frequency peer: jouiront (-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 « journalist »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Josserand
Josserand
1,870 corpus weight
- jouiront
jouiront
1,869 corpus weight
- journalist
journalist
1,868 corpus weight
- juxtaposer
juxtaposer
1,865 corpus weight
- kagura
kagura
1,864 corpus weight
- kanu
kanu
1,862 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « journalist » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | journalist |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈd͡ʒɜː.nə.lɪst\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #98,133 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « journalist » en français
Rare enough to double-check
journalist is uncommon French at frequency #98,133 among 957 “J” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈd͡ʒɜː.nə.lɪst\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Journaliste, reporter.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for journalist, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is journalist, spelled J-O-U-R-N-A-L-I-S-T.
Definition
- 1Journaliste, reporter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how journalist appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Farfar had a sign above his desk which read, ‘No journalist should write that which he cannot say as a gentleman.’
Synonyms
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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