Saint-Jacques
\sɛ̃.ʒɑk\
The verdict
“Saint-Jacques” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Coquille Saint-Jacques.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Saint-Jacques |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛ̃.ʒɑk\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Saint-Jacques” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Saint-Jacques is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɛ̃.ʒɑk\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Coquille Saint-Jacques.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Saint-Jacques, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Saint-Jacques, spelled S-A-I-N-T---J-A-C-Q-U-E-S.
Definition
- 1Coquille Saint-Jacques.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Saint-Jacques”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-A-I-N-T---J-A-C-Q-U-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \sɛ̃.ʒɑk\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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.