jette
\ʒɛt\
The verdict
“jette” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,931. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,931
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de jeter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-jette · jette · French
jette · rank #3,931 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,931
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH issus
Nearest frequency peer: issus (-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 « jette »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- inter
inter
96,073 corpus weight
- investissem…
investissements
96,072 corpus weight
- issus
issus
96,071 corpus weight
- jette
jette
96,070 corpus weight
- jo
jo
96,069 corpus weight
- laissent
laissent
96,067 corpus weight
What this shows « jette » 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 | jette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʒɛt\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #3,931 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « jette »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around jette (IPA \ʒɛt\), averb. Corpus frequency is #3,931 among 957 “J” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for jette, with forms such as "ejtte", "jete", and "jetet". 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, "jute", "juste", "jeune", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is jette, spelled J-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de jeter.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de jeter.
- 3Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de jeter.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de jeter.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de jeter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how jette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous abordâmes afin d’assister aux derniers coups de filet, et nous nous plaçâmes tous trois à l’ombre d’un bouillard, espèce de peuplier dont l’écorce est blanche, qui se trouve sur le Danube, sur la Loire, probablement sur tous les grands fleuves, et qui jette au printemps un coton blanc soyeux, l’enveloppe de sa fleur.
Le vilain brochet se jette sur la petite vandoise, mais, l’un comme l'autre, ils y passent.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ejtte
- jete
- jetet
- jjette
- jtete
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of jette - 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 "jette", 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 (5 here; floor ≥5).