Jamaïque
\ʒa.ma.ik\
The verdict
“Jamaïque” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,923. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,923
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Île des Caraïbes, situé au sud de Cuba et à l’ouest de l’île Hispaniola.
Corpus desk
Index FR-jamaique · Jamaïque · French
Jamaïque · rank #16,923 · 10 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,923
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH iraniens
Nearest frequency peer: iraniens (-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 « Jamaïque »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- intervalles
intervalles
83,081 corpus weight
- into
into
83,080 corpus weight
- iraniens
iraniens
83,079 corpus weight
- Jamaïque
Jamaïque
83,078 corpus weight
- jung
jung
83,076 corpus weight
- Kosovo
Kosovo
83,075 corpus weight
What this shows « Jamaïque » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Jamaïque |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʒa.ma.ik\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #16,923 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Jamaïque »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Jamaïque (IPA \ʒa.ma.ik\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #16,923 among 957 “J” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Jamaïque, with forms such as "ajmaïque", "jaamïque", and "jamaqïue". 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. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Jamaïque, spelled J-A-M-A-Ï-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Île des Caraïbes, situé au sud de Cuba et à l’ouest de l’île Hispaniola.
- 2État occupant cette île et ayant pour capitale Kingston.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Jamaïque appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans les rues se croisaient des Panamaniens bronzés de pure descendance espagnole, des nègres de la Jamaïque, de pittoresques Mexicains avec leur immense sombreros de paille multicolore […]
La Jamaïque est indépendante et membre du Commonwealth depuis 1962.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ajmaïque
- jaamïque
- jamaqïue
- jamaïqeu
- jamaïqque
- jamaïuqe
- jammaïque
- jamïaque
- jjamaïque
- jmaaïque
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Jamaïque - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).