Janus
\ʒa.nys\
The verdict
“Janus” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,317. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,317
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Divinité romaine veillant sur les ouvertures, aux sens propre et figuré.
Corpus desk
Index FR-janus · Janus · French
Janus · rank #33,317 · 7 variants · 16 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,317
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH Jagger
Nearest frequency peer: Jagger (-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 « Janus »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- IRC
IRC
66,687 corpus weight
- irrévocable
irrévocable
66,686 corpus weight
- Jagger
Jagger
66,685 corpus weight
- Janus
Janus
66,684 corpus weight
- Jenner
Jenner
66,683 corpus weight
- jouissif
jouissif
66,682 corpus weight
What this shows « Janus » 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 | Janus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʒa.nys\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #33,317 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Janus »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Janus (IPA \ʒa.nys\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #33,317 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 Janus, with forms such as "ajnus", "jannus", and "jansu". 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 16 confusable-pair relationships, "jus", "Jens", "jésus", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Janus, spelled J-A-N-U-S.
Definition
- 1Divinité romaine veillant sur les ouvertures, aux sens propre et figuré.
- 2Satellite naturel de la planète Saturne.
- 3Véhicule construit pour le tunnel du Mont-Blanc avec deux poste de conduite opposés, comme le dieu Janus a deux visages opposés.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Janus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand je parvins au bas et, qu’entré à l’hôtel, je m’étendis, avec beaucoup de précautions, dans un moelleux fauteuil, je constatai que j’étais brisé de fatigue, que j’avais le visage brûlé par le soleil, corrodé par le vent et surtout par le froid, et je me votai un repos de huit jours, à seule fin, comme dit Pandore, de me décourbaturer et d’avoir le te…
Une photographie me montre, riant aux éclats, traînant le long d’un escalier une poupée du XVIIIᵉ siècle, relique d’une grand-mère, un peu troublante parce que son visage, ses bras, son buste au corselet lacé de pâte tendre se trouvaient dédoublés, quand on lui rejetait sur la tête sa grande jupe mordorée, par un autre visage, d’autres bras, un autre bust…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ajnus
- jannus
- jansu
- januss
- jauns
- jjanus
- jnaus
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Janus - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).