jaguar
\ʒa.ɡwaʁ\
The verdict
“jaguar” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #17,740 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #17,740
- frequency rank, French
- 6
- letters
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - 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...
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 | jaguar |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒa.ɡwaʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #17,740 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “jaguar” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for jaguar is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, 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 generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for jaguar, with forms such as "ajguar", "jagaur", and "jagguar". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "January", "Jagger", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is jaguar, spelled J-A-G-U-A-R.
Definition
- 1Grand 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 taches noires ou totalement noir (jaguar noir). Le jaguar était un symbole divin pour de nombreuses populations précolombiennes du Mexique.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ajguar,jagaur,jagguar,jaguarr,jagura,jaugar,jgauar,jjaguar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of jaguar - 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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Using “jaguar”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is J-A-G-U-A-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʒa.ɡwaʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “January” - see the side-by-side comparison. jaguar vs January
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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.