jouir
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,861
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
jouir is aFrenchverb. It means: Profiter d’une chose que l’on a, que l’on possède, en goûter le plaisir, l’agrément, etc. Pronounced \ʒwiʁ\. It ranks #9,861 in French word frequency. Often confused with jour and juin.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jouir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʒwiʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #9,861 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for jouir is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒwiʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #9,861 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for jouir, with forms such as "jjouir", "joiur", and "jouirr". 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, "jour", "juin", "juif", 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 jouir, spelled J-O-U-I-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Profiter d’une chose que l’on a, que l’on possède, en goûter le plaisir, l’agrément, etc.
- 2Éprouver du plaisir.
- 3Avoir la liberté ou le temps de conférer avec quelqu’un, de l’entretenir, d’en tirer quelque service, quelque plaisir.
- 4Bénéficier.
- 5Avoir l’usage, la possession actuelle de quelque chose et en tirer tous les profits, tous les avantages, etc.
- 6Éprouver un vif plaisir, un orgasme, etc.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: jjouir,joiur,jouirr,jouri,juoir,ojuir
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for jouir
Misspelling Variants of "jouir"
Frequency rank: #9,861 in French
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