jubé
\ʒy.be\
The verdict
“jubé” is uncommon French (frequency #63,114 among 957 “J” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,114
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tribune en forme de galerie, qui fait écran entre la nef et le chœur liturgique d’une église, du haut duquel était lu l’évangile. Les jubés sont surmontés d'une crucifixion.
Corpus desk
Index FR-jube · jubé · French
jubé · rank #63,114 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,114
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH jubilatoire
Nearest frequency peer: jubilatoire (-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 « jubé »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- jonchent
jonchent
36,890 corpus weight
- Josy
Josy
36,889 corpus weight
- jubilatoire
jubilatoire
36,888 corpus weight
- jubé
jubé
36,887 corpus weight
- Karate
Karate
36,885 corpus weight
- kem
kem
36,884 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « jubé » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jubé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒy.be\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #63,114 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « jubé » en français
Rare enough to double-check
jubé is uncommon French at frequency #63,114 among 957 “J” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʒy.be\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for jubé, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is jubé, spelled J-U-B-É.
Definition
- 1Tribune en forme de galerie, qui fait écran entre la nef et le chœur liturgique d’une église, du haut duquel était lu l’évangile. Les jubés sont surmontés d'une crucifixion.
- 2La tribune d'orgue située dans le fond de la nef.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how jubé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au-dessus de la porte, où seraient les orgues, se tient un jubé pour les hommes, avec un escalier tournant qui retentit sous les sabots.
Un jubé extraordinairement riche et fouillé sépare l’église du chœur. Le chœur forme ainsi une seconde église plus intime, plus ornée et plus sainte.
This word in other languages
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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