joui
\ʒwi\
The verdict
“joui” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #30,676) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #30,676
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé masculin singulier de jouir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-joui · joui · French
joui · rank #30,676 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,676
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH Jordi
Nearest frequency peer: Jordi (-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 « joui »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- jongler
jongler
69,327 corpus weight
- Jordi
Jordi
69,326 corpus weight
- joui
joui
69,325 corpus weight
- jurent
jurent
69,323 corpus weight
- Justinien
Justinien
69,322 corpus weight
- Kazan
Kazan
69,321 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « joui » 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 | joui |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʒwi\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #30,676 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « joui »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for joui is neighbouring look-alikes ("ju", "jus", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced \ʒwi\. Frequency #30,676 among 957 “J” headwords. Gloss: "Participe passé masculin singulier de jouir.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for joui, with forms such as "jjoui", "joiu", and "juoi". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ju", "jus", "joy", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is joui, spelled J-O-U-I.
Definition
- 1Participe passé masculin singulier de jouir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how joui appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bien que le pays ait joui d’une certaine autonomie, la tendance constante de la Suède était de suédifier le pays; les intellectuels étaient devenus de vrais Suédois et la langue scandinave repoussait de plus en plus l’idiome ougro-altaique des habitants.
Juliette: […] Viens, gentille nuit ; viens, chère nuit au front noir, donne-moi mon Roméo, et, quand il sera mort, prends-le et coupe-le en petites étoiles, et il rendra la face du ciel si splendide que tout l'univers sera amoureux de la nuit et refusera son culte à l'aveuglant soleil… Oh ! j'ai acheté un domaine d'amour, mais je n'en ai pas pris possessi…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- jjoui
- joiu
- juoi
- ojui
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of joui - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).