Jesu
[ˈjeːzu]
The verdict
“Jesu” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #5,501) as an unknown. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #5,501
- frequency rank, German
- 699
- “J” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Genitiv des Eigennamens Jesus
Corpus desk
Index DE-jesu · Jesu · German
Jesu · rank #5,501 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,501
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 699
- PHOTO-FINISH islamischen
Nearest frequency peer: islamischen (-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 „Jesu“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- inhaltlich
inhaltlich
94,503 corpus weight
- internation…
internationaler
94,502 corpus weight
- islamischen
islamischen
94,501 corpus weight
- Jesu
Jesu
94,500 corpus weight
- Kalifornien
Kalifornien
94,499 corpus weight
- komplex
komplex
94,497 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „Jesu“ 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 | Jesu |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Unknown |
| IPA | [ˈjeːzu] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #5,501 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „Jesu“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Jesu is neighbouring look-alikes ("JS", "jet", …), not just typos; it is anunknown pronounced [ˈjeːzu]. Frequency #5,501 among 699 “J” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for Jesu, with forms such as "ejsu", "jeus", and "jjesu". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "JS", "jet", "jus", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Jesu, spelled J-E-S-U.
Definition
- 1Genitiv des Eigennamens Jesus
- 2Dativ des Eigennamens Jesus (seltener)
- 3Vokativ (Anredefall) des Eigennamens Jesus (seltener)
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ejsu
- jeus
- jjesu
- jseu
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Jesu - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "Jesu", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).