JSON
\ʒi.sɔn\
The verdict
“JSON” is uncommon French (frequency #74,117 among 957 “J” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,117
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Format servant à l’échange voire au stockage de données textuelles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-json · JSON · French
JSON · rank #74,117 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,117
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH Juninho
Nearest frequency peer: Juninho (+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 « JSON »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Janusz
Janusz
25,888 corpus weight
- jarrets
jarrets
25,887 corpus weight
- JSON
JSON
25,884 corpus weight
- Juninho
Juninho
25,883 corpus weight
- Kaliningrad
Kaliningrad
25,882 corpus weight
- kazakhs
kazakhs
25,880 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « JSON » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | JSON |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒi.sɔn\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #74,117 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « JSON » en français
Rare enough to double-check
JSON is uncommon French at frequency #74,117 among 957 “J” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʒi.sɔn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
JSON has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 JSON, spelled J-S-O-N.
Definition
- 1Format servant à l’échange voire au stockage de données textuelles.
- 2Fichier encodé avec ce format.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how JSON appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Nous éditons le ticket au format JSON, plus léger et donc moins encombrant à stocker », poursuit-il.
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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