jean
[dʒin]
The verdict
“jean” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #3,261) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #3,261
- frequency rank, German
- 699
- “J” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Jean
Corpus desk
Index DE-jean · jean · German
jean · rank #3,261 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,261
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 699
- PHOTO-FINISH Indien
Nearest frequency peer: Indien (-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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „jean“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
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96,743 corpus weight
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96,742 corpus weight
- Indien
Indien
96,741 corpus weight
- jean
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96,740 corpus weight
- Kevin
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96,739 corpus weight
- Konflikt
Konflikt
96,738 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „jean“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jean |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [dʒin] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #3,261 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „jean“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for jean is neighbouring look-alikes ("jn", "jet", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [dʒin]. Frequency #3,261 among 699 “J” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for jean, with forms such as "ejan", "jaen", and "jeann". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "jn", "jet", "joa", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is jean, spelled J-E-A-N.
Definition
- 1Jean
- 2Jeans
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ejan
- jaen
- jeann
- jjean
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of jean - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "jean", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).