Jonah
The verdict
“Jonah” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,032. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,032
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom masculin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-jonah · Jonah · French
Jonah · rank #32,032 · 7 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,032
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH jihadiste
Nearest frequency peer: jihadiste (-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 « Jonah »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- ivrogne
ivrogne
67,972 corpus weight
- jaunâtre
jaunâtre
67,971 corpus weight
- jihadiste
jihadiste
67,970 corpus weight
- Jonah
Jonah
67,969 corpus weight
- Josué
Josué
67,968 corpus weight
- journalières
journalières
67,967 corpus weight
What this shows « Jonah » 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 | Jonah |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #32,032 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Jonah »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Jonah, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #32,032 among 957 “J” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Prénom masculin.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Jonah, with forms such as "jjonah", "jnoah", and "joanh". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "josh", "jong", "joua", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Jonah, spelled J-O-N-A-H.
Definition
- 1Prénom masculin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Jonah appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
D’où le surnom de Jonah Lomu des bergeries, en référence au mythique rugbyman des All Blacks.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- jjonah
- jnoah
- joanh
- jonahh
- jonha
- jonnah
- ojnah
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Jonah - 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 (7 here; floor ≥5).