djihad
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#18,715
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
djihad is aFrenchnoun. It means: Combat pour étendre le domaine de l’Islam (دَارُ ٱلسَّلَامِ (dâru ^lsalâmi) : pays musulman) par la conquête des pays non soumis (دَارُ ٱلحَرْبِ (dâru ^lHarbi) et دَارُ ٱلجِهَادِ (dâru ^ljihâdi) : ... Pronounced \dʒi.ad\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | djihad |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dʒi.ad\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #18,715 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for djihad is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dʒi.ad\. Corpus data places it at rank #18,715 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for djihad, with forms such as "ddjihad", "dijhad", and "djhiad". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is djihad, spelled D-J-I-H-A-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Combat pour étendre le domaine de l’Islam (دَارُ ٱلسَّلَامِ (dâru ^lsalâmi) : pays musulman) par la conquête des pays non soumis (دَارُ ٱلحَرْبِ (dâru ^lHarbi) et دَارُ ٱلجِهَادِ (dâru ^ljihâdi) : pays de la guerre, du jihad). Il est qualifié de « djihad par l’épée ».
- 2Combat pour défendre le domaine de l’Islam. (Il est qualifié de « djihad mineur ».)
- 3Effort sur soi-même que tout musulman doit accomplir contre ses passions. (Il est qualifié de « djihad majeur »)
- 4Croisade, guerre ou lutte à connotation religieuse.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddjihad,dijhad,djhiad,djiahd,djihadd,djihda,djihhad,djjihad,jdihad
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "djihad"
Frequency rank: #18,715 in French
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