Jonathan

/\ʒɔ.na.tɑ̃\/ name

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#5,881

in French word usage

Misspellings

12

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

Jonathan is aFrenchname. It means: Fils de Saül. Pronounced \ʒɔ.na.tɑ̃\. It ranks #5,881 in French word frequency.

Key facts for Jonathan
PropertyValue
HeadwordJonathan
LanguageFrench
Part of speechName
IPA\ʒɔ.na.tɑ̃\
Letters8
Frequency rank#5,881
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for Jonathan is 8 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒɔ.na.tɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,881 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Fils de Saül.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for Jonathan, with forms such as "jjonathan", "jnoathan", and "joanthan". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 Jonathan, spelled J-O-N-A-T-H-A-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Fils de Saül.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: jjonathan,jnoathan,joanthan,jonahtan,jonatahn,jonathann,jonathhan,jonathna,jonatthan,jonnathan,jontahan,ojnathan

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Jonathan

Misspelling Variants of "Jonathan"

jjonathan9jnoathan8joanthan8jonahtan8jonatahn8jonathann9jonathhan9jonathna8
Misspelling Variants of "Jonathan"

Frequency rank: #5,881 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Jonathan"?
"Jonathan" is spelled J-O-N-A-T-H-A-N. The IPA pronunciation is \ʒɔ.na.tɑ̃\.
What does "Jonathan" mean?
As a name, "Jonathan" means: Fils de Saül.
What are common misspellings of "Jonathan"?
Common misspellings include "jjonathan", "jnoathan", "joanthan", "jonahtan", "jonatahn". The correct spelling is "Jonathan".
How do you pronounce "Jonathan"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Jonathan" is \ʒɔ.na.tɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Jonathan" come from?
"Jonathan" 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.