jo
\ʒɔ\
The verdict
“jo” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #3,932) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #3,932
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (Nivernais) Coq.
Corpus desk
Index FR-jo · jo · French
jo · rank #3,932 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,932
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH jette
Nearest frequency peer: jette (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “jo”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- 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
- lion
lion
96,066 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “jo” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | jo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒɔ\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #3,932 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “jo” se place dans la fréquence du français
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for jo is neighbouring look-alikes ("JT", "ju", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ʒɔ\. Frequency #3,932 among 957 “J” headwords. Gloss: "(Nivernais) Coq.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for jo, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "JT", "ju", "JP", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is jo, spelled J-O.
Definition
- 1(Nivernais) Coq.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how jo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Mademoiselle, j’ai dit qu’à ce jo-là mon ventre servirait bien de cimetière.
Charlot Vignaut prend son flûtiau Pour faire danser la poule et le jô. La poule et le jô veulent point danser, Charlot Vignaut est ben fâché.
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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- "jo" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "JT". View pair
- Usage frequency rank #3,932 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.