jusques
\ʒys.kə.z‿\
The verdict
“jusques” is uncommon French (frequency #50,924 among 47,938 “J” headwords), classed as a preposition. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,924
- frequency rank, French
- 47,938
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Variante de jusque. Utilisé au lieu de jusqu’, quand une voyelle (ou un h muet) suit, et l’on fait sentir la liaison. C’est une paragoge dans quelques expressions figées comme jusques à quand et ju...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jusques |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Preposition |
| IPA | \ʒys.kə.z‿\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #50,924 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “jusques” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
jusques is uncommon French at frequency #50,924 among 47,938 “J” headwords, classed as apreposition, transcribed \ʒys.kə.z‿\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de jusque. Utilisé au lieu de jusqu’, quand une voyelle (ou un h muet) suit, et l’on fait sentir la liaison. C’est une paragoge dans quelques expressions figées comme jusques à quand et ju...".
jusques has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is jusques, spelled J-U-S-Q-U-E-S.
Definition
- 1Variante de jusque. Utilisé au lieu de jusqu’, quand une voyelle (ou un h muet) suit, et l’on fait sentir la liaison. C’est une paragoge dans quelques expressions figées comme jusques à quand et jusques et y compris.
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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Using “jusques”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is J-U-S-Q-U-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʒys.kə.z‿\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.