ja
\ja\
The verdict
“ja” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #11,604) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #11,604
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Trente-deuxième lettre de l’alphabet cyrillique, я.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ja · ja · French
ja · rank #11,604 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,604
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH intenses
Nearest frequency peer: intenses (-1 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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “ja”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- hunter
hunter
88,400 corpus weight
- intenses
intenses
88,398 corpus weight
- ja
ja
88,397 corpus weight
- joies
joies
88,396 corpus weight
- karma
karma
88,395 corpus weight
- lanceur
lanceur
88,394 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “ja” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | ja |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ja\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #11,604 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “ja” se place dans la fréquence du français
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ja is neighbouring look-alikes ("je", "jo", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ja\. Frequency #11,604 among 957 “J” headwords. Gloss: "Trente-deuxième lettre de l’alphabet cyrillique, я.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for ja, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "je", "jo", "JT", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is ja, spelled J-A.
Definition
- 1Trente-deuxième lettre de l’alphabet cyrillique, я.
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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- "ja" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "je". View pair
- Usage frequency rank #11,604 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "J" letter cohort. J–Z browse
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.