judex
The verdict
“judex” is uncommon French (frequency #83,077 among 957 “J” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,077
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Juge, arbitre, appréciateur, critique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-judex · judex · French
judex · rank #83,077 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,077
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH juchée
Nearest frequency peer: juchée (-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 « judex »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- JRS
JRS
16,927 corpus weight
- jubilee
jubilee
16,926 corpus weight
- juchée
juchée
16,925 corpus weight
- judex
judex
16,924 corpus weight
- Kahnawake
Kahnawake
16,922 corpus weight
- Kanal
Kanal
16,921 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « judex » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | judex |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #83,077 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « judex » en français
Rare enough to double-check
judex is uncommon French at frequency #83,077 among 957 “J” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Juge, arbitre, appréciateur, critique.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for judex, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is judex, spelled J-U-D-E-X.
Definition
- 1Juge, arbitre, appréciateur, critique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how judex appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
judex est de re pecuniaria
judex reusque
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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