joue
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#689
in French word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
joue is aFrenchnoun. It means: Partie du visage de l’humain qui est au-dessous des tempes et des yeux, et qui s’étend de chaque côté du nez jusqu’au menton dont la peau ferme latéralement la bouche. Pronounced \ʒu\. It ranks #689 in French word frequency. Often confused with ju and jus.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | joue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒu\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #689 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for joue is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒu\. Corpus data places it at rank #689 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for joue, with forms such as "jjoue", "joeu", and "juoe". 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 also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ju", "jus", "joy", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 joue, spelled J-O-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Partie du visage de l’humain qui est au-dessous des tempes et des yeux, et qui s’étend de chaque côté du nez jusqu’au menton dont la peau ferme latéralement la bouche.
- 2Partie arrondie de la coque d’un navire qui est comprise entre le mât de misaine et l’étrave.
- 3Pièce de bœuf, que l’on fait mijoter dans une sauce au vin.
- 4Face latérale extérieure de la caisse d'une poulie.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: jjoue,joeu,juoe,ojue
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for joue
Misspelling Variants of "joue"
Frequency rank: #689 in French
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Nearby French words
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