juxtaposer
\ʒyks.ta.po.ze\
The verdict
“juxtaposer” is uncommon French (frequency #98,136 among 957 “J” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,136
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mettre l’une à côté de l’autre deux ou plusieurs choses.
Corpus desk
Index FR-juxtaposer · juxtaposer · French
juxtaposer · rank #98,136 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,136
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH kagura
Nearest frequency peer: kagura (+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 « juxtaposer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Josserand
Josserand
1,870 corpus weight
- jouiront
jouiront
1,869 corpus weight
- journalist
journalist
1,868 corpus weight
- juxtaposer
juxtaposer
1,865 corpus weight
- kagura
kagura
1,864 corpus weight
- kanu
kanu
1,862 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « juxtaposer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | juxtaposer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʒyks.ta.po.ze\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #98,136 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « juxtaposer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
juxtaposer is uncommon French at frequency #98,136 among 957 “J” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʒyks.ta.po.ze\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
juxtaposer doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is juxtaposer, spelled J-U-X-T-A-P-O-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1Mettre l’une à côté de l’autre deux ou plusieurs choses.
- 2Mettre les uns à côté des autres sans le secours d’une conjonction.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how juxtaposer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Adjectifs juxtaposés. Propositions juxtaposées.
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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