jan
\ʒɑ̃\
The verdict
“jan” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #8,412) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #8,412
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chacune des deux tables du jeu de trictrac.
Corpus desk
Index FR-jan · jan · French
jan · rank #8,412 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,412
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH indienne
Nearest frequency peer: indienne (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « jan »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- idéale
idéale
91,593 corpus weight
- inclure
inclure
91,592 corpus weight
- inconscient
inconscient
91,591 corpus weight
- indienne
indienne
91,590 corpus weight
- jan
jan
91,589 corpus weight
- levant
levant
91,586 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « jan » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | jan |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #8,412 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « jan »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for jan is neighbouring look-alikes ("je", "jo", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ʒɑ̃\. Frequency #8,412 among 957 “J” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No generated misspelling entries exist for jan in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "je", "jo", "JT", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is jan, spelled J-A-N.
Definition
- 1Chacune des deux tables du jeu de trictrac.
- 2Se dit aussi de la marque des points pour l’un ou l’autre des joueurs.
- 3Ajonc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how jan appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je remplis mon grand jan par doublet : six points pour moi.
Ce jan de mézéas me permet de marquer deux trous sans bouger.
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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