joua
\ʒwa\
The verdict
“joua” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #23,916) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #23,916
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de jouer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-joua · joua · French
joua · rank #23,916 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,916
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH jme
Nearest frequency peer: jme (-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 « joua »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- ivy
ivy
76,088 corpus weight
- Javascript
Javascript
76,087 corpus weight
- jme
jme
76,086 corpus weight
- joua
joua
76,085 corpus weight
- Joëlle
Joëlle
76,084 corpus weight
- kader
kader
76,083 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « joua » 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 | joua |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʒwa\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #23,916 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « joua »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for joua is neighbouring look-alikes ("ju", "jus", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced \ʒwa\. Frequency #23,916 among 957 “J” headwords. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de jouer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for joua, with forms such as "jjoua", "joau", and "juoa". 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, "ju", "jus", "joy", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is joua, spelled J-O-U-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de jouer.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- jjoua
- joau
- juoa
- ojua
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of joua - 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.
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 "joua", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).