Joyon
\ʒwa.jɔ̃\
The verdict
“Joyon” is uncommon French (frequency #97,063 among 957 “J” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,063
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-joyon · Joyon · French
Joyon · rank #97,063 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,063
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH Jory
Nearest frequency peer: Jory (-2 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 « Joyon »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Jankélévitch
Jankélévitch
2,943 corpus weight
- Japhet
Japhet
2,942 corpus weight
- joggings
joggings
2,941 corpus weight
- Jory
Jory
2,940 corpus weight
- Joyon
Joyon
2,938 corpus weight
- jue
jue
2,936 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Joyon » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Joyon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʒwa.jɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #97,063 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Joyon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Joyon is uncommon French at frequency #97,063 among 957 “J” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ʒwa.jɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Joyon in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Joyon, spelled J-O-Y-O-N.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Joyon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sept jours et 14 heures pour Francis Joyon en 2018 contre 32 jours pour Yves Le Cornec en 1978…
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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