joints

/\ʒwɛ̃\/ adj

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#9,860

in French word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

7

similar word pairs

joints is anFrenchadj. It means: Masculin pluriel de joint. Pronounced \ʒwɛ̃\. It ranks #9,860 in French word frequency. Often confused with Jones and jouets.

Key facts for joints
PropertyValue
Headwordjoints
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\ʒwɛ̃\
Letters6
Frequency rank#9,860
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of joints in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for joints is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒwɛ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #9,860 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Masculin pluriel de joint.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for joints, with forms such as "jionts", "jjoints", and "joinnts". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "Jones", "jouets", "join", 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 joints, spelled J-O-I-N-T-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Masculin pluriel de joint.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: jionts,jjoints,joinnts,joinst,jointss,jointts,joitns,jonits,ojints

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for joints

Misspelling Variants of "joints"

jionts6jjoints7joinnts7joinst6jointss7jointts7joitns6jonits6
Misspelling Variants of "joints"

Frequency rank: #9,860 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "joints"?
"joints" is spelled J-O-I-N-T-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ʒwɛ̃\.
What does "joints" mean?
As an adj, "joints" means: Masculin pluriel de joint.
What words are commonly confused with "joints"?
"joints" is commonly confused with "Jones", "jouets", "join". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "joints"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "joints" is \ʒwɛ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "joints" come from?
"joints" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.