Ju
/d͡ʒuː/
"ju" is a 2-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Ju” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #13,551) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #13,551
- frequency rank, English
- 796
- “J” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname from Chinese.
Corpus desk
Index EN-ju · Ju · English
Ju · rank #13,551 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,551
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 796
- PHOTO-FINISH Jorge
Nearest frequency peer: Jorge (-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.
Frequency neighbours of confusable “Ju”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- jockey
jockey
86,453 corpus weight
- jolly
jolly
86,452 corpus weight
- Jorge
Jorge
86,451 corpus weight
- Ju
Ju
86,450 corpus weight
- Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan
86,449 corpus weight
- Kenyan
Kenyan
86,448 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “Ju” against nearest ranked English headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.
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 | Ju |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /d͡ʒuː/ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #13,551 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “Ju”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Ju is neighbouring look-alikes ("JV", "JW", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced /d͡ʒuː/. Frequency #13,551 among 796 “J” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Ju doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "JV", "JW", "jun", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From various romanizations of various Chinese characters. As a prefecture, from Chinese 矩州 (Jǔzhōu, “Carpenter's-Square Prefecture”). The correct English form is Ju, spelled J-U.
Definition
- 1A surname from Chinese.
- 2A former prefecture of imperial China centered on Juzhou in what is now Guizhou Province.
- 3A county of Rizhao, Shandong, China.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Ju appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Among the various Neolithic inscriptions found on pottery vessels and other artifacts that contain astronomical information, the most significant ones are probably those found on ceremonial pottery vessels of the Dàwénkǒu culture (c. -4300 to -1900) unearthed in 1959 at Língyánghé 陵陽河 in Jǔ 莒 county in the Shāndōng 山東 province as illustrated in Figure 46.²¹²
Etymology
From various romanizations of various Chinese characters. As a prefecture, from Chinese 矩州 (Jǔzhōu, “Carpenter's-Square Prefecture”).
Synonyms
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.