jacket
\ʒa.kɛt\
The verdict
“jacket” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,525. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,525
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Revêtement de la couronne d’une dent, imitant l’émail, employé comme prothèse esthétique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-jacket · jacket · French
jacket · rank #44,525 · 9 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,525
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH islandaise
Nearest frequency peer: islandaise (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “jacket”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- invaincue
invaincue
55,480 corpus weight
- IPv6
IPv6
55,479 corpus weight
- islandaise
islandaise
55,478 corpus weight
- jacket
jacket
55,476 corpus weight
- jalousement
jalousement
55,474 corpus weight
- Jennie
Jennie
55,473 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “jacket” 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 | jacket |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒa.kɛt\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #44,525 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “jacket” se place dans la fréquence du français
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around jacket (IPA \ʒa.kɛt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #44,525 among 957 “J” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Revêtement de la couronne d’une dent, imitant l’émail, employé comme prothèse esthétique.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for jacket, with forms such as "ajcket", "jaccket", and "jacekt". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "Janet", "Jacky", "Jackie", 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. The correct French form is jacket, spelled J-A-C-K-E-T.
Definition
- 1Revêtement de la couronne d’une dent, imitant l’émail, employé comme prothèse esthétique.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ajcket
- jaccket
- jacekt
- jackett
- jackket
- jackte
- jakcet
- jcaket
- jjacket
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of jacket - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "jacket", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).
What to do next
You've looked up "jacket". Here's where to go from here.
- "jacket" maps to 11 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "Janet". View pair
- 9 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #44,525 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "J" letter cohort. J–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
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.