Jux
[jʊks]
The verdict
“Jux” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #45,371) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #45,371
- frequency rank, German
- 699
- “J” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - das Hereinlegen einer Person zum Zwecke der Belustigung
Corpus desk
Index DE-jux · Jux · German
Jux · rank #45,371 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #45,371
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 699
- PHOTO-FINISH Judäa
Nearest frequency peer: Judäa (-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 „Jux“
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What this shows Balken platzieren „Jux“ 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 | Jux |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [jʊks] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #45,371 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „Jux“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Jux is neighbouring look-alikes ("JVA", "J", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [jʊks]. Frequency #45,371 among 699 “J” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No generated misspelling entries exist for Jux in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "JVA", "J", "ja", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Jux, spelled J-U-X.
Definition
- 1das Hereinlegen einer Person zum Zwecke der Belustigung
- 2eine kleine Geschichte mit einer Pointe, die zum Lachen anregen soll
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Jux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Buben machten sich einen Jux daraus, faulige Äpfel über die Hecken fremder Gärten zu werfen.
„Es war ein Notwehrakt, nicht Jux und Tollerei.“
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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