jaffa
\ʒa.fa\
The verdict
“jaffa” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,376. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,376
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de jaffer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-jaffa · jaffa · French
jaffa · rank #38,376 · 5 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,376
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH jamaïcain
Nearest frequency peer: jamaïcain (+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 « jaffa »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- irritable
irritable
61,628 corpus weight
- Isaïe
Isaïe
61,627 corpus weight
- jaffa
jaffa
61,625 corpus weight
- jamaïcain
jamaïcain
61,624 corpus weight
- jauger
jauger
61,623 corpus weight
- Johns
Johns
61,622 corpus weight
What this shows « jaffa » 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 | jaffa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʒa.fa\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #38,376 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « jaffa »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around jaffa (IPA \ʒa.fa\), averb. Corpus frequency is #38,376 among 957 “J” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de jaffer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for jaffa, with forms such as "ajffa", "jafa", and "jafaf". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "Jeff", "Java", "jana", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is jaffa, spelled J-A-F-F-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de jaffer.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ajffa
- jafa
- jafaf
- jfafa
- jjaffa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of jaffa - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).