juicy

adj

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The verdict

“juicy” is uncommon French (frequency #61,628 among 47,938 “J” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#61,628
frequency rank, French
47,938
“J” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Juteux.

Key facts for juicy
PropertyValue
Headwordjuicy
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
Letters5
Frequency rank#61,628
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “juicy” sits in French frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). juicy lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
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Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

juicy is uncommon French at frequency #61,628 among 47,938 “J” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

Zero misspellings are on record for juicy in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is juicy, spelled J-U-I-C-Y.

Definition

  1. 1
    Juteux.
  2. 2
    Croustillant (en parlant d’un détail, d’une histoire, ...).

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "juicy"?
"juicy" is spelled J-U-I-C-Y.
What does "juicy" mean?
As an adjective, "juicy" means: Juteux.
What language does "juicy" come from?
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Using “juicy”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is J-U-I-C-Y - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words

Other uncommon French words near this rank

Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list