How to pronounce Jacques
French · France
IPA: /ʒak/
- Jzh
- aah
- cquk
- essilent
Voice: synthetic.
One syllable
Jacques
One syllable: ZHAHK.
The common mistake
- Not
JACK-ess - Not
JACK-weez
But ZHAHK
Origin and meaning
From Iacobus, the Latin form behind both James and Jacob, which goes back to the Hebrew Yaakov.
Variants and namesakes
- Jacqueline
- The feminine form.
- James · Jacob
- Its English equivalents.
Sources
- Syllables
- en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Jacques
- The common mistake
- Worked out from the IPA (Wiktionary): /ʒak/, one syllable.
- Variants and namesakes
- en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Jacques (Jacqueline; James and Jacob)
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