jolie
\ʒɔ.li\
The verdict
“jolie” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,872. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,872
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de joli.
Corpus desk
Index FR-jolie · jolie · French
jolie · rank #1,872 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,872
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH jaune
Nearest frequency peer: jaune (-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 « jolie »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- HTTP
HTTP
98,132 corpus weight
- importants
importants
98,131 corpus weight
- jaune
jaune
98,130 corpus weight
- jolie
jolie
98,129 corpus weight
- jésus
jésus
98,128 corpus weight
- longueur
longueur
98,127 corpus weight
What this shows « jolie » 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 | jolie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʒɔ.li\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,872 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « jolie »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around jolie (IPA \ʒɔ.li\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #1,872 among 957 “J” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de joli.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for jolie, with forms such as "jjolie", "jloie", and "joile". 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, "joue", "José", "Joly", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is jolie, spelled J-O-L-I-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de joli.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how jolie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La conversation fut d’abord assez triste, car l’hôte et ses enfants ne répondaient que par oui et par non, et semblaient bouder ; mais Gaspard, qui avait de l’esprit, s’adressa à la fille de la maison, lui dit qu’elle était jolie, et, pour mieux la muguetter, se plaça vis-à-vis d’elle, derrière le père, assis lui-même, entre ses deux fils, qui riaient d’u…
Les grandes marées attirent toujours du monde, des pêcheurs, des familles qui s’en vont joyeusement grattouiller les rochers à découvert, dans l’espoir de ramener une jolie petite pêche.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- jjolie
- jloie
- joile
- jolei
- jollie
- ojlie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of jolie - 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).