joueur

/\ʒwœʁ\/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#879

in French word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

16

similar word pairs

joueur is aFrenchnoun. It means: Celui qui joue ou qui a le goût de jouer. Pronounced \ʒwœʁ\. It ranks #879 in French word frequency. Often confused with jour and jouez.

Key facts for joueur
PropertyValue
Headwordjoueur
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʒwœʁ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#879
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs16
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for joueur is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒwœʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #879 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for joueur, with forms such as "jjoueur", "joeuur", and "joueru". 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 16 confusable-pair relationships, "jour", "jouez", "jouir", 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 joueur, spelled J-O-U-E-U-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Celui qui joue ou qui a le goût de jouer.
  2. 2
    Celui qui joue à un jeu où il y a des règles.
  3. 3
    Parieur, celui qui a la passion du jeu d’argent, qui fait en quelque sorte métier de jouer.
  4. 4
    Instrumentiste.
  5. 5
    Sportif qui joue dans une équipe ou contre un adversaire.
  6. 6
    Participant, personne ou entité impliquée, visée.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: jjoueur,joeuur,joueru,joueurr,jouuer,juoeur,ojueur

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for joueur

Misspelling Variants of "joueur"

jjoueur7joeuur6joueru6joueurr7jouuer6juoeur6ojueur6
Misspelling Variants of "joueur"

Frequency rank: #879 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "joueur"?
"joueur" is spelled J-O-U-E-U-R. The IPA pronunciation is \ʒwœʁ\.
What does "joueur" mean?
As a noun, "joueur" means: Celui qui joue ou qui a le goût de jouer.
What words are commonly confused with "joueur"?
"joueur" is commonly confused with "jour", "jouez", "jouir". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "joueur"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "joueur" is \ʒwœʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "joueur" come from?
"joueur" 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.