Jozef
\ˈʒoː.zɛf\
The verdict
“Jozef” is uncommon French (frequency #66,847 among 957 “J” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,847
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom masculin, correspondant à Joseph.
Corpus desk
Index FR-jozef · Jozef · French
Jozef · rank #66,847 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,847
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH jokes
Nearest frequency peer: jokes (-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 « Jozef »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Jamil
Jamil
33,158 corpus weight
- jokes
jokes
33,155 corpus weight
- Jozef
Jozef
33,154 corpus weight
- juridiction…
juridictionnel
33,153 corpus weight
- Kabir
Kabir
33,151 corpus weight
- kabuki
kabuki
33,150 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Jozef » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Jozef |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ˈʒoː.zɛf\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #66,847 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Jozef » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Jozef is uncommon French at frequency #66,847 among 957 “J” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ˈʒoː.zɛf\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prénom masculin, correspondant à Joseph.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Jozef in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Jozef, spelled J-O-Z-E-F.
Definition
- 1Prénom masculin, correspondant à Joseph.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Jozef appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
D’ar 7 a viz genver 1655, o vezan ne gave ket ar cʼhloc’her a zilhad-oferen eus al liou m’oa red kaout evit oferennan en de-ze, ar breur Jozef a lavaras d’ezan digas dilhad du, rak emezan, en Rom ar pab a zo o paouez mervel.
Unnek marvailh e brezhoneg, avat, a zo bet embannet gant Jozef OLIER, dindan an anv Kontadennoù ar bobl e Breiz-Izel, e ti ar Goazioù, e Kemper, e 1939.
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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