Jacob
\ʒa.kɔb\
The verdict
“Jacob” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,669. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,669
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille, connu entre autres par Max Jacob, poète français.
Corpus desk
Index FR-jacob · Jacob · French
Jacob · rank #5,669 · 7 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,669
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH jouant
Nearest frequency peer: jouant (+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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Jacob »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- grossesse
grossesse
94,336 corpus weight
- incluant
incluant
94,334 corpus weight
- Jacob
Jacob
94,332 corpus weight
- jouant
jouant
94,331 corpus weight
- Laura
Laura
94,330 corpus weight
- like
like
94,329 corpus weight
What this shows « Jacob » 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 | Jacob |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʒa.kɔb\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #5,669 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Jacob »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Jacob (IPA \ʒa.kɔb\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #5,669 among 957 “J” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille, connu entre autres par Max Jacob, poète français.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Jacob, with forms such as "ajcob", "jacbo", and "jaccob". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "job", "Japon", "Jason", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Jacob, spelled J-A-C-O-B.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille, connu entre autres par Max Jacob, poète français.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Jacob appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Fabien Le Coïdic, éleveur bio de vaches bretonnes pie noir, tente de s’installer à Adainville, dans les Yvelines. Mais c’est sans compter la vive opposition de cinq de ses voisins, dont l’éditrice Odile Jacob représentée par l’avocate Corinne Lepage.
Un message exprimé par Dominique Cap, maire de Plougastel-Daoulas et président de l’association des maires du Finistère ; Pierre Ogor, maire de Guilers ; Yves du Buit, maire de Plouzané ; Stéphane Roudaut, maire de Gouesnou ; Armel Gourvil, maire de Bohars ; et Fabrice Jacob, maire de Guipavas.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ajcob
- jacbo
- jaccob
- jacobb
- jaocb
- jcaob
- jjacob
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Jacob - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).