jouis
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#36,019
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
jouis is aFrenchverb. It means: Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de jouir. Pronounced \ʒwi\. Often confused with jus and jour.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jouis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʒwi\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #36,019 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for jouis is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒwi\. Corpus data places it at rank #36,019 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for jouis, with forms such as "jjouis", "joius", and "jouiss". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "jus", "jour", "juin", 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 jouis, spelled J-O-U-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de jouir.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de jouir.
- 3Première personne du singulier du passé simple de jouir.
- 4Deuxième personne du singulier du passé simple de jouir.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de jouir.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: jjouis,joius,jouiss,jousi,juois,ojuis
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for jouis
Misspelling Variants of "jouis"
Frequency rank: #36,019 in French
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Nearby French words
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