joug
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#19,570
in French word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
joug is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pièce de bois que l’on pose sur l’échine des bœufs ou autres animaux de trait et avec laquelle ils sont attelés pour tirer un chariot ou une charrue. Pronounced \ʒu\. Often confused with ju and jus.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | joug |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒu\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #19,570 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for joug is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒu\. Corpus data places it at rank #19,570 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for joug, with forms such as "jjoug", "jogu", and "jougg". 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 joug, spelled J-O-U-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pièce de bois que l’on pose sur l’échine des bœufs ou autres animaux de trait et avec laquelle ils sont attelés pour tirer un chariot ou une charrue.
- 2Élément en unissant deux autres.
- 3Pièce de bois qui supporte une cloche.
- 4Portique improvisé à l’aide de trois lances, sous lequel les vainqueurs obligeaient les vaincus à se courber.
- 5Servitude, soumission totale, asservissement résultant d’une défaite. Sujétion, servilité, obéissance aveugle.
- 6Pièce de bois qui supporte l’extrémité des apostis.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: jjoug,jogu,jougg,juog,ojug
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for joug
Misspelling Variants of "joug"
Frequency rank: #19,570 in French
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Nearby French words
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