ji
\ʒi\
The verdict
“ji” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #14,713) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #14,713
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lettre latine J, j.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ji · ji · French
ji · rank #14,713 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,713
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH irlandaise
Nearest frequency peer: irlandaise (-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 « ji »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- intolérance
intolérance
85,291 corpus weight
- inverser
inverser
85,290 corpus weight
- irlandaise
irlandaise
85,289 corpus weight
- ji
ji
85,288 corpus weight
- joey
joey
85,287 corpus weight
- Katherine
Katherine
85,285 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « ji » 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 | ji |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒi\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #14,713 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « ji »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ji is neighbouring look-alikes ("jo", "JT", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ʒi\. Frequency #14,713 among 957 “J” headwords. Gloss: "Lettre latine J, j.".
ji doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "jo", "JT", "ju", 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 is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is ji, spelled J-I.
Definition
- 1Lettre latine J, j.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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.