javelot
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#41,358
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
javelot is aFrenchnoun. It means: Espèce de dard, arme de trait qu’on lançait avec la main. Pronounced \ʒav.lo\. Often confused with javel.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | javelot |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒav.lo\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #41,358 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for javelot is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒav.lo\. Corpus data places it at rank #41,358 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for javelot, with forms such as "ajvelot", "jaevlot", and "javellot". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "javel", 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 javelot, spelled J-A-V-E-L-O-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Espèce de dard, arme de trait qu’on lançait avec la main.
- 2Meuble représentant l’arme du même nom dans les armoiries. Contrairement à l’arme du même nom, en héraldique, le javelot est généralement représenté avec une pointe semblable à celle de la flèche. À rapprocher de dard, épieu, lance, lance de tournoi et pique.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ajvelot,jaevlot,javellot,javelott,javelto,javeolt,javleot,javvelot,jjavelot,jvaelot
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Misspelling Variants of "javelot"
Frequency rank: #41,358 in French
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