joie
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,820
in French word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
joie is aFrenchnoun. It means: Sentiment de bonheur, de satisfaction vive et intense qui vient du plaisir que l'on a à agir, à accomplir non pas une tâche répétitive, mais de contribuer à un certain progrès qui est empreint d'un... Pronounced \ʒwa\. It ranks #1,820 in French word frequency. Often confused with jon and joy.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | joie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒwa\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #1,820 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for joie is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒwa\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,820 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for joie, with forms such as "jioe", "jjoie", and "joei". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "jon", "joy", "jos", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is joie, spelled J-O-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sentiment de bonheur, de satisfaction vive et intense qui vient du plaisir que l'on a à agir, à accomplir non pas une tâche répétitive, mais de contribuer à un certain progrès qui est empreint d'un caractère spirituel philosophique, scientifique, religieux ou esthétique.
- 2Plaisirs ; jouissances.
- 3Gaieté ; humeur gaie.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: jioe,jjoie,joei,ojie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for joie
Misspelling Variants of "joie"
Frequency rank: #1,820 in French
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