jeans
\dʒin\
The verdict
“jeans” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,239. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,239
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de jean.
Corpus desk
Index FR-jeans · jeans · French
jeans · rank #11,239 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,239
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH inédits
Nearest frequency peer: inédits (-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 « jeans »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- intersection
intersection
88,765 corpus weight
- intervienne…
interviennent
88,764 corpus weight
- inédits
inédits
88,763 corpus weight
- jeans
jeans
88,762 corpus weight
- Keith
Keith
88,761 corpus weight
- know
know
88,760 corpus weight
What this shows « jeans » 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 | jeans |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dʒin\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #11,239 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « jeans »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around jeans (IPA \dʒin\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,239 among 957 “J” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de jean.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for jeans, with forms such as "ejans", "jaens", and "jeanns". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "jen", "Juan", "jets", 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 read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is jeans, spelled J-E-A-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de jean.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how jeans appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un ami est venu vous voir pendant que vous dormiez. Il m'a dit qu'il vous a apporté des jeans, des cotons ouatés, des t-shirts, un imperméable, des livres et plein d'autres choses.
« Sydney Sweeney has great jeans », conclut une voix off, créant l’ambiguïté entre « jeans » et « gènes », deux mots qui se prononcent de la même façon en anglais.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ejans
- jaens
- jeanns
- jeanss
- jeasn
- jenas
- jjeans
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of jeans - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "jeans", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).