Johnson
\dʒɔn.sɔn\
The verdict
“Johnson” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,777. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,777
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-johnson · Johnson · French
Johnson · rank #5,777 · 11 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,777
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH jaunes
Nearest frequency peer: jaunes (-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 « Johnson »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- invention
invention
94,227 corpus weight
- inviter
inviter
94,226 corpus weight
- jaunes
jaunes
94,225 corpus weight
- Johnson
Johnson
94,224 corpus weight
- laïcité
laïcité
94,223 corpus weight
- logiciels
logiciels
94,222 corpus weight
What this shows « Johnson » 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 | Johnson |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \dʒɔn.sɔn\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #5,777 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Johnson »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Johnson (IPA \dʒɔn.sɔn\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #5,777 among 957 “J” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Johnson, with forms such as "jhonson", "jjohnson", and "johhnson". 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, "Johns", "Johansson", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Johnson, spelled J-O-H-N-S-O-N.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Johnson appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’héritage Johnson reste bien ancré : « L’identité britannique se construit de plus en plus en opposition avec l’identité européenne, et le populisme antieuropéen et antifrançais devrait fonctionner encore longtemps », poursuit Gilles Leydier, professeur et spécialiste de la Grande-Bretagne à l’université du Sud Toulon-Var.
C’est parti au taquet, Morgan Boucher (UCB) et Harry Johnson (CC Plancoet) sont les premiers en évidence mais sont repris à mi-course.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- jhonson
- jjohnson
- johhnson
- johnnson
- johnosn
- johnsno
- johnsonn
- johnsson
- johsnon
- jonhson
- ojhnson
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Johnson - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
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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 (11 here; floor ≥5).