jaguar

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for jaguar is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒa.ɡwaʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #17,740 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Grand mammifère carnivore de la famille des félidés en voie de disparition mais que l’on peut rencontrer du Mexique au Brésil. Nom scientifique : Panthera onca. Son pelage est fauve moucheté de tac...".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for jaguar, with forms such as "ajguar", "jagaur", and "jagguar". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "January", "Jagger", 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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is jaguar, spelled J-A-G-U-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.