jour
/ˈd͡ʒɝ/
"jour" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“jour” has 5 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #29,330. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,330
- frequency rank, English
- 796
- “J” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abbreviation of journeyman, e.g. jour printer.
Corpus desk
Index EN-jour · jour · English
jour · rank #29,330 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,330
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 796
- PHOTO-FINISH Joni
Nearest frequency peer: Joni (-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 “jour”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Jap
Jap
70,675 corpus weight
- Jekyll
Jekyll
70,674 corpus weight
- Joni
Joni
70,672 corpus weight
- jour
jour
70,671 corpus weight
- juggernaut
juggernaut
70,670 corpus weight
- Kalamazoo
Kalamazoo
70,668 corpus weight
What this shows “jour” 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 | jour |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈd͡ʒɝ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #29,330 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “jour”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around jour (IPA /ˈd͡ʒɝ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,330 among 796 “J” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Abbreviation of journeyman, e.g. jour printer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for jour, with forms such as "jjour", "joru", and "jourr". 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, "Jr", "Ju", "joy", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is jour, spelled J-O-U-R.
Definition
- 1Abbreviation of journeyman, e.g. jour printer.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- jjour
- joru
- jourr
- juor
- ojur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of jour - 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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "jour", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).