Jolly

name

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The verdict

“Jolly” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,875. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#38,875
frequency rank, French
957
“J” headwords
5
tracked misspellings
13
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.

Corpus desk

Index FR-jolly · Jolly · French

Jolly · rank #38,875 · 5 variants · 13 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #38,875
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
  • VAR-MID 5 variants
  • BOOK-MID 957
  • PHOTO-FINISH Jawad

Nearest frequency peer: Jawad (-2 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 « Jolly »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « Jolly » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

Jolly vs joy
40% similar
Jolly vs Joly
80% similar
Jolly vs July
60% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for Jolly
PropertyValue
HeadwordJolly
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters5
Frequency rank#38,875
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs13
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Jolly »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).Jollyse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Jawad » (#38,873), « Josèphe » (#38,877), « jardim » (#38,872). Parmi 957 lemmes en « J », « Jolly » est au #38,875. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 5 spelling variants around Jolly, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #38,875 among 957 “J” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for Jolly, with forms such as "jjolly", "jloly", and "jollyy". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "joy", "Joly", "July", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

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 Jolly, spelled J-O-L-L-Y.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom de famille.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how Jolly appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. En 1979, Starmania, c’était une dystopie, une projection pessimiste de notre humanité dans le futur, explique Thomas Jolly, metteur en scène du spectacle.
  2. Au cours d’une intervention devant une délégation ukrainienne, le 30 novembre dernier, le député Rassemblement national (RN) Alexis Jolly a interpellé les acteurs du milieu agricole.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • jjolly
  • jloly
  • jollyy
  • jolyl
  • ojlly

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Jolly - 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.

jjolly1jloly2jollyy1jolyl2ojlly2
Edit distance from "Jolly"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Jolly"?
"Jolly" is spelled J-O-L-L-Y.
What does "Jolly" mean?
As a proper noun, "Jolly" means: Nom de famille.
What words are commonly confused with "Jolly"?
"Jolly" is commonly confused with "joy", "Joly", "July". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "Jolly" come from?
"Jolly" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Jolly", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Jawad#38,873Kampf#38,882Marek#38,913hertz#38,836

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).

kool5 variantsholà5 variantsNCAA5 variantsnear5 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list