French Words: J
47,938 words · Page 17 of 959
Jacquette, robe que porte les petits garçons avant qu’on leur donne le pantalon ; petit vêtement des enfants qui ne couvre que le buste ou ne descend qu’au genou.
Relatif à saint Jacques, et en particulier au pèlerinage à Saint-Jacques-de-Compostelle.
Pourpoint à manches et rembourré, servant à la fois de vêtement et de protection, en usage au Moyen Âge.
Ressort situé au bas de la vis du balancier à frapper les monnaies, et servant à la faire relever lorsqu’elle a pincé l’espèce ou la médaille.
Nom d’un jeu d’enfants où les participants doivent suivre les instructions précédées de « Jacques a dit : », et ignorer les autres.
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French alphabetical index for the letter J contains 47,938 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 959 pages, and you are currently viewing page 17. Every row above is a dictionary-backed entry with a canonical slug, and each links through to a full definition page with pronunciation, senses, etymology, and related-word data where available.
On this page 50 of 50 entries carry a part-of-speech tag and 50 carry at least one stored definition. Coverage varies across letters because Wiktionary volunteers build entries at different speeds for different parts of the alphabet, letters with common starting sounds (S, C, T, P) usually have the densest coverage, while less frequent starters (X, Q, Z) tend to have shorter but more specialised lists. PlainSpell surfaces whatever data is present and links back to the source when a definition is not yet recorded.
For readers using this index as a spelling reference, the guarantee is that every form you see on the list is a documented French headword, not a guess, not a derived inflection lacking a lemma row. If a word you expected to find is absent from the "J" list, it usually means the form exists only as an inflection of another lemma (e.g. a past participle stored under the infinitive) or the entry has not yet been imported from Wiktionary. Use the search bar or the misspelling lookup to resolve these cases.