Joe
The verdict
“Joe” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #3,859) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #3,859
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom masculin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-joe · Joe · French
Joe · rank #3,859 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,859
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH iPhone
Nearest frequency peer: iPhone (-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 “Joe”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- intitulé
intitulé
96,144 corpus weight
- iPhone
iPhone
96,143 corpus weight
- Joe
Joe
96,142 corpus weight
- maritime
maritime
96,141 corpus weight
- mignon
mignon
96,140 corpus weight
- nan
nan
96,139 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Joe” 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 | Joe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #3,859 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “Joe” se place dans la fréquence du français
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Joe is neighbouring look-alikes ("JT", "ju", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun. Frequency #3,859 among 957 “J” headwords. Gloss: "Prénom masculin.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Joe in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "JT", "ju", "JP", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Joe, spelled J-O-E.
Definition
- 1Prénom masculin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Joe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Son futur pendant à droite de l’axe, le Gallois Joe Rodon, est attendu ce dimanche à Rennes.
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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- "Joe" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "JT". View pair
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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.