jean
\dʒin\
The verdict
“jean” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #272. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #272
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tissu épais, à armure serge, généralement bleu et écru, utilisé à l'origine pour les bleus de travail.
Corpus desk
Index FR-jean · jean · French
jean · rank #272 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #272
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH effet
Nearest frequency peer: effet (-2 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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “jean”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- soir
soir
99,733 corpus weight
- souvent
souvent
99,732 corpus weight
- effet
effet
99,731 corpus weight
- jean
jean
99,729 corpus weight
- ni
ni
99,727 corpus weight
- partir
partir
99,726 corpus weight
What this shows “jean” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
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) |
Où “jean” se place dans la fréquence du français
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around jean (IPA \dʒin\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #272 among 957 “J” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how jean appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Zoé est deuxième dans la file et il y a deux types derrière elle. Je les surveille attentivement parce qu'y en a un qui porte une veste en jean sur une chemise en flanelle et je sais pas, mais les vestes en jean ça m'a jamais trop inspiré.
Le blouson en jean, devenu un basique de la garde-robe féminine comme masculine, est le blouson le plus porté aujourd'hui.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "jean", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).