jean
\dʒin\
The verdict
“jean” is in the everyday core of French, ranked #272 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #272
- frequency rank, French
- 4
- letters
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Tissu épais, à armure serge, généralement bleu et écru, utilisé à l'origine pour les bleus de travail.
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 | jean |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dʒin\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #272 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “jean” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for jean is 4 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dʒin\. Corpus data places it at rank #272 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for jean, with forms such as "ejan", "jaen", and "jeann". 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. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "jeu", "jet", "jon", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is jean, spelled J-E-A-N.
Definition
- 1Tissu épais, à armure serge, généralement bleu et écru, utilisé à l'origine pour les bleus de travail.
- 2Pantalon taillé dans ce tissu.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ejan,jaen,jeann,jena,jjean
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of jean - 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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Using “jean”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is J-E-A-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \dʒin\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “jeu” - see the side-by-side comparison. jean vs jeu
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.