Japon
\ʒa.pɔ̃\
The verdict
“Japon” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,740. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,740
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pays insulaire de l’Asie de l’Est, situé entre l’océan Pacifique et la mer du Japon, à l’est de la Chine et de la Corée, au sud-sud-est de la Russie, et au nord-est de Taïwan, et qui a Tokyo pour c...
Corpus desk
Index FR-japon · Japon · French
Japon · rank #1,740 · 7 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,740
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH indépendance
Nearest frequency peer: indépendance (-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 « Japon »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- fortement
fortement
98,264 corpus weight
- humains
humains
98,263 corpus weight
- indépendance
indépendance
98,262 corpus weight
- Japon
Japon
98,261 corpus weight
- justement
justement
98,260 corpus weight
- lancer
lancer
98,259 corpus weight
What this shows « Japon » 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 | Japon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʒa.pɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,740 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Japon »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Japon (IPA \ʒa.pɔ̃\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #1,740 among 957 “J” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Japon, with forms such as "ajpon", "jaopn", and "japno". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "jon", "Jason", "jeton", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Japon, spelled J-A-P-O-N.
Definition
- 1Pays insulaire de l’Asie de l’Est, situé entre l’océan Pacifique et la mer du Japon, à l’est de la Chine et de la Corée, au sud-sud-est de la Russie, et au nord-est de Taïwan, et qui a Tokyo pour capitale.
- 2Pays développé non occidental.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Japon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En dépit de ses égarements (l'invasion de la Corée, celle de la Chine, la déclaration de guerre aux États-Unis), le Japon, défait et doté d'une nouvelle constitution, est parvenu à intégrer, à la fin du XXᵉ siècle, le club sélect du G7 et à se maintenir parmi les nations influentes de la planète.
[Le soleil] ne tourne point autour d’une montagne ; mais il se lève dans les îles du Japon, qu’on appelle pour cette raison Jepon ou Gue-puen, naissance du soleil ; et il se couche bien loin à l’occident, derrière les îles d’Angleterre.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ajpon
- jaopn
- japno
- japonn
- jappon
- jjapon
- jpaon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Japon - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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).