Jesus
/ˈd͡ʒiːzəs/
"jesus" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Jesus” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #1,106. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,106
- frequency rank, English
- 796
- “J” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Jesus of Nazareth, a first-century Jewish religious preacher and craftsman (commonly understood to have been a carpenter) from Galilee held to be a prophet, teacher, the Son of God, and the Messiah...
Corpus desk
Index EN-jesus · Jesus · English
Jesus · rank #1,106 · 7 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,106
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 796
- PHOTO-FINISH feet
Nearest frequency peer: feet (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “Jesus”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- drop
drop
98,898 corpus weight
- fair
fair
98,897 corpus weight
- feet
feet
98,896 corpus weight
- Jesus
Jesus
98,895 corpus weight
- kid
kid
98,894 corpus weight
- link
link
98,893 corpus weight
What this shows “Jesus” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
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 | Jesus |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈd͡ʒiːzəs/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,106 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Jesus”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Jesus (IPA /ˈd͡ʒiːzəs/), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #1,106 among 796 “J” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Jesus, with forms such as "ejsus", "jessu", and "jessus". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "jus", "Jews", "jets", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English Jhesus, Iesus, from Latin Iēsūs, from Ancient Greek Ἰησοῦς (Iēsoûs), from Biblical Hebrew יֵשׁוּעַ (yēšū́aʿ), a contracted form of יְהוֹשֻׁעַ (yəhōšúaʿ, “Joshua”), meaning "the Lord saves". The form יֵשׁוּעַ (yēšū́aʿ) is attested in some… The correct English form is Jesus, spelled J-E-S-U-S.
Definition
- 1Jesus of Nazareth, a first-century Jewish religious preacher and craftsman (commonly understood to have been a carpenter) from Galilee held to be a prophet, teacher, the Son of God, and the Messiah, or Christ, in Christianity; also called "Jesus Christ" by Christians. Held to be a prophet by Muslims and Baháʼís. Also called "the historical Jesus" from a historiographic viewpoint or a secular one.
- 2One of a variety of persons or entities in western Manichaeism, of whom some correspond closely to the Christian conception of Jesus of Nazareth.
- 3A male given name from Spanish in Spanish culture; an anglicized spelling of Jesús.
- 4A male given name from Aramaic.
- 5Ellipsis of Jesus College, Cambridge.
- 6Ellipsis of Jesus College, Oxford.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Jesus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
For the Son of God, Christ Jesus, is Head of the Church; and can the Body doe any thing well, if the Head direct it not?
Mohammed always announced his religion as the religion of Abraham, of Moses, and of Jesus.
Etymology
From Middle English Jhesus, Iesus, from Latin Iēsūs, from Ancient Greek Ἰησοῦς (Iēsoûs), from Biblical Hebrew יֵשׁוּעַ (yēšū́aʿ), a contracted form of יְהוֹשֻׁעַ (yəhōšúaʿ, “Joshua”), meaning "the Lord saves". The form יֵשׁוּעַ (yēšū́aʿ) is attested in some of the later books of the Hebrew Bible (Ezra–Nehemiah), and translated as Jeshua or Yeshua in some English editions (the former appearing in the King James Version). The Greek texts make no distinction between Jesus and Joshua, referring to them both as Ἰησοῦς (Iēsoûs). In the Wycliffe Bible (Middle English), the forms used are Jhesus and Jhesu.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ejsus
- jessu
- jessus
- jesuss
- jeuss
- jjesus
- jseus
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Jesus - 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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Same letter count
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Similar misspelling depth
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