jou
The verdict
“jou” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #38,878) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #38,878
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pronom personnel objet de la deuxième personne du singulier : te.
Corpus desk
Index FR-jou · jou · French
jou · rank #38,878 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,878
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH Josèphe
Nearest frequency peer: Josèphe (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « jou »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- Jawad
Jawad
61,128 corpus weight
- Jolly
Jolly
61,126 corpus weight
- Josèphe
Josèphe
61,124 corpus weight
- jou
jou
61,123 corpus weight
- justifiez
justifiez
61,121 corpus weight
- Kampf
Kampf
61,119 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « jou » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | jou |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #38,878 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « jou »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for jou is neighbouring look-alikes ("JT", "ju", …), not just typos; it is apronoun. Frequency #38,878 among 957 “J” headwords. Gloss: "Pronom personnel objet de la deuxième personne du singulier : te.".
No misspelling variants are generated for jou in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "JT", "ju", "JP", 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 easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is jou, spelled J-O-U.
Definition
- 1Pronom personnel objet de la deuxième personne du singulier : te.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how jou appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die meisie sien jou.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).