Djerba
\dʒɛʁ.ba\
The verdict
“Djerba” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #41,227. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,227
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Île méditerranéenne située sur la côte orientale de la Tunisie, située au sud-est du golfe de Gabès.
Corpus desk
Index FR-djerba · Djerba · French
Djerba · rank #41,227 · 9 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #41,227
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dixie
Nearest frequency peer: dixie (-2 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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Djerba »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- dive
dive
58,778 corpus weight
- divergente
divergente
58,777 corpus weight
- dixie
dixie
58,776 corpus weight
- Djerba
Djerba
58,774 corpus weight
- doll
doll
58,772 corpus weight
- dominical
dominical
58,771 corpus weight
What this shows « Djerba » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | Djerba |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \dʒɛʁ.ba\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #41,227 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Djerba »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Djerba (IPA \dʒɛʁ.ba\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #41,227 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Île méditerranéenne située sur la côte orientale de la Tunisie, située au sud-est du golfe de Gabès.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Djerba, with forms such as "ddjerba", "dejrba", and "djebra". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "derby", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Djerba, spelled D-J-E-R-B-A.
Definition
- 1Île méditerranéenne située sur la côte orientale de la Tunisie, située au sud-est du golfe de Gabès.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Djerba appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Enfin, près de la côte méditerranéenne, s’étire fièrement l’île de Djerba, l’un des fleurons du tourisme tunisien. Prolongement naturel de la basse steppe, l’île de Djerba et la région de Zarzis permettent encore l’oléiculture à quelques pas d’un désert étouffant.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddjerba
- dejrba
- djebra
- djerab
- djerbba
- djerrba
- djjerba
- djreba
- jderba
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Djerba - 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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).