jujitsu
\dʒy.dʒit.sy\
The verdict
“jujitsu” is uncommon French (frequency #91,851 among 957 “J” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,851
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de jiu-jitsu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-jujitsu · jujitsu · French
jujitsu · rank #91,851 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,851
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH jubilaire
Nearest frequency peer: jubilaire (-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 « jujitsu »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Jochen
Jochen
8,156 corpus weight
- joko
joko
8,155 corpus weight
- jubilaire
jubilaire
8,151 corpus weight
- jujitsu
jujitsu
8,150 corpus weight
- kalachnikovs
kalachnikovs
8,149 corpus weight
- Kerbrat
Kerbrat
8,146 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « jujitsu » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jujitsu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dʒy.dʒit.sy\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #91,851 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « jujitsu » en français
Rare enough to double-check
jujitsu is uncommon French at frequency #91,851 among 957 “J” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dʒy.dʒit.sy\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de jiu-jitsu.".
Zero misspellings are on record for jujitsu in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is jujitsu, spelled J-U-J-I-T-S-U.
Definition
- 1Variante de jiu-jitsu.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how jujitsu appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais le nom complet de cette instance fédérale est un peu plus long : Fédération française de judo, jujitsu, kendo et disciplines associées.
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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