joke
\dʒok\
The verdict
“joke” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,742. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,742
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Blague, farce.
Corpus desk
Index FR-joke · joke · French
joke · rank #17,742 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,742
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH jargon
Nearest frequency peer: jargon (-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 « joke »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- inventée
inventée
82,262 corpus weight
- jaguar
jaguar
82,261 corpus weight
- jargon
jargon
82,260 corpus weight
- joke
joke
82,259 corpus weight
- justifient
justifient
82,258 corpus weight
- Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan
82,257 corpus weight
What this shows « joke » 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 | joke |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dʒok\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #17,742 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « joke »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around joke (IPA \dʒok\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,742 among 957 “J” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Blague, farce.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for joke, with forms such as "jjoke", "jkoe", and "joek". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. 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.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is joke, spelled J-O-K-E.
Definition
- 1Blague, farce.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how joke appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je catche pas ta joke.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- jjoke
- jkoe
- joek
- jokke
- ojke
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of joke - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).