jouissance
\ʒwi.sɑ̃s\
The verdict
“jouissance” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,418. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,418
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Satisfaction voluptueuse, éprouvée tantôt par les sens, tantôt par l’âme ou l’esprit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-jouissance · jouissance · French
jouissance · rank #15,418 · 12 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #15,418
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH intensive
Nearest frequency peer: intensive (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « jouissance »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- infographie
infographie
84,586 corpus weight
- intelligent…
intelligentes
84,585 corpus weight
- intensive
intensive
84,584 corpus weight
- jouissance
jouissance
84,583 corpus weight
- Jérémie
Jérémie
84,582 corpus weight
- kayak
kayak
84,581 corpus weight
What this shows « jouissance » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | jouissance |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒwi.sɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #15,418 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « jouissance »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around jouissance (IPA \ʒwi.sɑ̃s\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #15,418 among 957 “J” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for jouissance, with forms such as "jjouissance", "joiussance", and "jouisance". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "jouissant", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is jouissance, spelled J-O-U-I-S-S-A-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Satisfaction voluptueuse, éprouvée tantôt par les sens, tantôt par l’âme ou l’esprit.
- 2Plaisir né de la relation sexuelle épanouie.
- 3Possession d’une chose dont on tire des profits, des avantages, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how jouissance appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette fête était donc une espèce d'adieu aux jouissances de Paris, à cette vie rapide, à ce tourbillon de pensées et de plaisirs que l'on calomnie assez souvent, mais auquel il est si doux de s'abandonner.
Qu’ai-je besoin de demander aux choses d’autres jouissances que celle de leur présence, c’est-à-dire leur beauté et leur parfum ?
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- jjouissance
- joiussance
- jouisance
- jouisasnce
- jouissacne
- jouissancce
- jouissanec
- jouissannce
- jouissnace
- jousisance
- juoissance
- ojuissance
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of jouissance - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).