djinn

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for djinn is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dʒin\. Corpus data places it at rank #49,600 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Entité polymorphe née du feu, potentiellement malfaisante et dotée du pouvoir d’influence sur les humains dans les contes et légendes préislamiques du Moyen-Orient, assimilée ensuite à une nature d...".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for djinn, with forms such as "ddjinn", "dijnn", and "djin". 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 also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "drink", "doing", "jean", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 djinn, spelled D-J-I-N-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.