jem
\ˈjem\
The verdict
“jem” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #46,838) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #46,838
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif futur du verbe jam.
Corpus desk
Index FR-jem · jem · French
jem · rank #46,838 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,838
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH Joaquim
Nearest frequency peer: Joaquim (+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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « jem »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- jaeger
jaeger
53,167 corpus weight
- Janssen
Janssen
53,166 corpus weight
- jaques
jaques
53,165 corpus weight
- jem
jem
53,163 corpus weight
- Joaquim
Joaquim
53,162 corpus weight
- Josie
Josie
53,160 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « jem » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | jem |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈjem\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #46,838 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « jem »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for jem is neighbouring look-alikes ("jo", "JT", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced \ˈjem\. Frequency #46,838 among 957 “J” headwords. Gloss: "Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif futur du verbe jam.".
Zero misspellings are on record for jem in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "jo", "JT", "ji", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is jem, spelled J-E-M.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif futur du verbe jam.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).