jésuite
\ʒe.zɥit\
The verdict
“jésuite” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,516. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,516
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à la Compagnie de Jésus.
Corpus desk
Index FR-jesuite · jésuite · French
jésuite · rank #18,516 · 10 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,516
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH JP
Nearest frequency peer: JP (-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 « jésuite »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- jam
jam
81,488 corpus weight
- JP
JP
81,486 corpus weight
- jésuite
jésuite
81,485 corpus weight
- kick
kick
81,484 corpus weight
- knight
knight
81,483 corpus weight
- Lagarde
Lagarde
81,482 corpus weight
What this shows « jésuite » 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 | jésuite |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʒe.zɥit\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #18,516 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « jésuite »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around jésuite (IPA \ʒe.zɥit\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #18,516 among 957 “J” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for jésuite, with forms such as "jesuite", "jjésuite", and "jséuite". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "jésuites", "Jessie", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is jésuite, spelled J-É-S-U-I-T-E.
Definition
- 1Relatif à la Compagnie de Jésus.
- 2Baroque ; l’église du Gesù, à Rome, étant l’un des premiers exemples de l’art baroque.
- 3Dissimulé, hypocrite, retors.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how jésuite appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les collèges jésuites.
Henri IV est le grand-père de Louis XIV, Cotton, le grand-oncle du P. la Chaise : deux royautés, deux dynasties, celle des rois, celle des confesseurs jésuites.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- jesuite
- jjésuite
- jséuite
- jésiute
- jéssuite
- jésuiet
- jésuitte
- jésutie
- jéusite
- éjsuite
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of jésuite - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "jésuite", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (10 here; floor ≥5).