French Words: J
47,938 words · Page 267 of 959
Croiser les doigts pour quelqu’un, espérer la réussite de son dessein ou lui souhaiter de la chance.
Chercher à créer des difficultés à quelqu’un, lui savonner la planche, lui mettre des bâtons dans les roues.
Escroquer, tromper, faire prendre des vessies pour des lanternes, faire gober n’importe quoi.
Chercher à nuire à quelqu’un, lui savonner la planche, lui mettre des bâtons dans les roues.
Empêcher quelqu'un de continuer à faire du mal, quelque chose de mauvais ou d'illégal.
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 267. 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.