Joux
\ʒu\
The verdict
“Joux” is uncommon French (frequency #51,560 among 957 “J” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,560
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département du Rhône.
Corpus desk
Index FR-joux · Joux · French
Joux · rank #51,560 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,560
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH jed
Nearest frequency peer: jed (-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 « Joux »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- jachère
jachère
48,444 corpus weight
- jardiner
jardiner
48,443 corpus weight
- jed
jed
48,442 corpus weight
- Joux
Joux
48,441 corpus weight
- jugeront
jugeront
48,440 corpus weight
- Junon
Junon
48,439 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Joux » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Joux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʒu\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #51,560 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Joux » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Joux is uncommon French at frequency #51,560 among 957 “J” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ʒu\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département du Rhône.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Joux in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Joux, spelled J-O-U-X.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département du Rhône.
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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