josh
\ˈdʒɑːʃ\
The verdict
“josh” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,525. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,525
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plaisanterie de bon aloi.
Corpus desk
Index FR-josh · josh · French
josh · rank #10,525 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,525
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH jobs
Nearest frequency peer: jobs (-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 « josh »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Israel
Israel
89,479 corpus weight
- Istanbul
Istanbul
89,478 corpus weight
- jobs
jobs
89,477 corpus weight
- josh
josh
89,476 corpus weight
- kurdes
kurdes
89,475 corpus weight
- lesbiennes
lesbiennes
89,474 corpus weight
What this shows « josh » 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 | josh |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈdʒɑːʃ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #10,525 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « josh »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around josh (IPA \ˈdʒɑːʃ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,525 among 957 “J” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Plaisanterie de bon aloi.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for josh, with forms such as "jjosh", "johs", and "joshh". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "jus", "joy", "jou", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is josh, spelled J-O-S-H.
Definition
- 1Plaisanterie de bon aloi.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- jjosh
- johs
- joshh
- jossh
- jsoh
- ojsh
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of josh - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "josh", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (6 here; floor ≥5).