Jeffrey
\dʒɛ.fʁɛ\
The verdict
“Jeffrey” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,294. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,294
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom masculin anglophone.
Corpus desk
Index FR-jeffrey · Jeffrey · French
Jeffrey · rank #14,294 · 9 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,294
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH japonaises
Nearest frequency peer: japonaises (-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 « Jeffrey »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- irréprochab…
irréprochable
85,710 corpus weight
- isolées
isolées
85,709 corpus weight
- japonaises
japonaises
85,708 corpus weight
- Jeffrey
Jeffrey
85,707 corpus weight
- Jorge
Jorge
85,706 corpus weight
- jouais
jouais
85,705 corpus weight
What this shows « Jeffrey » 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 | Jeffrey |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \dʒɛ.fʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #14,294 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Jeffrey »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Jeffrey (IPA \dʒɛ.fʁɛ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #14,294 among 957 “J” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Prénom masculin anglophone.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Jeffrey, with forms such as "ejffrey", "jeffery", and "jeffreyy". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Joffre", "Joffrey", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Jeffrey, spelled J-E-F-F-R-E-Y.
Definition
- 1Prénom masculin anglophone.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Jeffrey appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour rappel, Jeffrey Dahmer (ici interprété par Evan Peters), décédé en 1994, a assassiné 17 jeunes hommes gays, pour la plupart afro-américains, dans les années 1980.
Jeffrey Keene, 63 ans, a expliqué sur Facebook avoir voulu lier son cours à un exercice destiné à préparer les élèves au risque d’intrusion d'un individu armé dans leur lycée, près d’Orlando, en Floride.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ejffrey
- jeffery
- jeffreyy
- jeffrrey
- jeffrye
- jefrey
- jefrfey
- jfefrey
- jjeffrey
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Jeffrey - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).