jaloux
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,470
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
jaloux is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui éprouve une envie se manifestant par le désir qu'une personne bénéficiant d'une situation perçue comme meilleure à la sienne perde son avantage. Pronounced \ʒa.lu\. It ranks #5,470 in French word frequency. Often confused with jalon and jalons.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jaloux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \ʒa.lu\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #5,470 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for jaloux is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒa.lu\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,470 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for jaloux, with forms such as "ajloux", "jalloux", and "jalouxx". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "jalon", "jalons", "jalouse", 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 jaloux, spelled J-A-L-O-U-X, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui éprouve une envie se manifestant par le désir qu'une personne bénéficiant d'une situation perçue comme meilleure à la sienne perde son avantage.
- 2Qui éprouve un agacement plus ou moins prononcé causé par le sentiment qu'une personne qu'on aime, aime elle-même — ou pourrait aimer — une autre personne, ou seulement en soit approchée.
- 3Qui tient beaucoup, qui est fort attaché à quelque chose.
- 4Qui a à cœur, qui est très désireux de.
- 5Qualifie un vaisseau qui roule énormément.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ajloux,jalloux,jalouxx,jaloxu,jaluox,jaolux,jjaloux,jlaoux
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "jaloux"
Frequency rank: #5,470 in French
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