jacques
\ʒak\
The verdict
“jacques” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,231. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,231
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sorte de sobriquet donné anciennement aux paysans.
Corpus desk
Index FR-jacques · jacques · French
jacques · rank #1,231 · 10 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,231
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH habitude
Nearest frequency peer: habitude (-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 « jacques »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- end
end
98,772 corpus weight
- habitude
habitude
98,771 corpus weight
- jacques
jacques
98,770 corpus weight
- poser
poser
98,769 corpus weight
- principal
principal
98,768 corpus weight
- publics
publics
98,767 corpus weight
What this shows « jacques » 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 | jacques |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒak\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,231 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « jacques »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around jacques (IPA \ʒak\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,231 among 957 “J” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for jacques, with forms such as "ajcques", "jaccques", and "jacqeus". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "jaques", "jacquet", "Jacquot", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is jacques, spelled J-A-C-Q-U-E-S.
Definition
- 1Sorte de sobriquet donné anciennement aux paysans.
- 2Personne niaise, un peu sotte.
- 3Pince-monseigneur.
- 4Pluriel de jacque (paysan insurgé, insurgé d'une jacquerie).
- 5Pluriel de jacque (vêtement de protection, en usage au Moyen Âge).
- 6Pluriel de jacque (fruit du jacquier).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how jacques appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous sommes de beaux Jacques, allez, de gratifier de plus de trois mille francs ce mauvais docteur là. […]. Qui tombe jamais malade ici ? […] Si on l'appelle c'est tout au plus pour le permis d'inhumer.
Aussi j'prends mes outils dans la serviette. — Quels outils? — Ben, mon jacques. — Un jacques, me souffla Bob, c'est une pince-monseigneur. — […].C'est au cas qu'on a mis le verrou à l'intérieur que j'me sers du jacques. Ça va vite. Deux, trois pesées..
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ajcques
- jaccques
- jacqeus
- jacqques
- jacquess
- jacquse
- jacuqes
- jaqcues
- jcaques
- jjacques
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of jacques - 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 "jacques", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).