jalon
\ʒa.lɔ̃\
The verdict
“jalon” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #45,691. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #45,691
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Repère balisé que l’on plante en terre pour prendre des alignements ou déterminer une direction. Souvent une simple tige de bois ou de fer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-jalon · jalon · French
jalon · rank #45,691 · 7 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-MID #45,691
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH jal
Nearest frequency peer: jal (-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 « jalon »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- jacentes
jacentes
54,312 corpus weight
- jal
jal
54,311 corpus weight
- jalon
jalon
54,310 corpus weight
- jalonnent
jalonnent
54,309 corpus weight
- jarret
jarret
54,308 corpus weight
- joystick
joystick
54,307 corpus weight
What this shows « jalon » 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 | jalon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒa.lɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #45,691 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « jalon »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around jalon (IPA \ʒa.lɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #45,691 among 957 “J” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for jalon, with forms such as "ajlon", "jallon", and "jalno". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "jan", "jon", "Japon", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is jalon, spelled J-A-L-O-N.
Definition
- 1Repère balisé que l’on plante en terre pour prendre des alignements ou déterminer une direction. Souvent une simple tige de bois ou de fer.
- 2Repère quelconque dans un itinéraire.
- 3Se dit des idées ou des étapes qui servent à diriger ou à situer dans une étude, dans un travail, un projet, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how jalon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il ne rencontre sur sa route que les arbres des rues qui sont jusque dans les villes les signes et les jalons de la résignation universelle.
Avec Fritz, je place des jalons. Ce sont des roseaux que j'ai préparés à cet effet, et qu'il faut planter tous les cent pas pour tracer des lignes droites.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ajlon
- jallon
- jalno
- jalonn
- jaoln
- jjalon
- jlaon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of jalon - 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 "jalon", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).