jaillir
\ʒa.jiʁ\
The verdict
“jaillir” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,745. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,745
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sortir impétueusement, en parlant surtout de l’eau ou de tout autre fluide.
Corpus desk
Index FR-jaillir · jaillir · French
jaillir · rank #33,745 · 8 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,745
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH jadot
Nearest frequency peer: jadot (-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 « jaillir »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- invincibles
invincibles
66,260 corpus weight
- itinérants
itinérants
66,259 corpus weight
- jadot
jadot
66,257 corpus weight
- jaillir
jaillir
66,256 corpus weight
- jalons
jalons
66,255 corpus weight
- Josette
Josette
66,253 corpus weight
What this shows « jaillir » 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 | jaillir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʒa.jiʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #33,745 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « jaillir »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around jaillir (IPA \ʒa.jiʁ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #33,745 among 957 “J” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for jaillir, with forms such as "ajillir", "jaililr", and "jailir". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "jaillit", "joaillier", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is jaillir, spelled J-A-I-L-L-I-R.
Definition
- 1Sortir impétueusement, en parlant surtout de l’eau ou de tout autre fluide.
- 2Apparaitre soudainement ; fuser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how jaillir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une fontaine qui ne jaillissait, de mémoire d’homme, qu’à la fonte des neiges, avait coulé sans interruption depuis.
Les ruines […] sont enfouies dans un bocage de figuiers, d'oliviers et de grenadiers, à l’ombre desquels jaillissent de nombreuses sources fraîches et limpides.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ajillir
- jaililr
- jailir
- jaillirr
- jaillri
- jalilir
- jiallir
- jjaillir
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of jaillir - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "jaillir", 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 (8 here; floor ≥5).