jouissent
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#21,979
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
jouissent is aFrenchverb. It means: Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de jouir. Pronounced \ʒwis\. Often confused with jouissant and jouissait.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jouissent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʒwis\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #21,979 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for jouissent is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒwis\. Corpus data places it at rank #21,979 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for jouissent, with forms such as "jjouissent", "joiussent", and "jouisent". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "jouissant", "jouissait", 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 jouissent, spelled J-O-U-I-S-S-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de jouir.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif imparfait de jouir.
- 3Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent de jouir.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: jjouissent,joiussent,jouisent,jouisesnt,jouissennt,jouissentt,jouissetn,jouissnet,jousisent,juoissent,ojuissent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for jouissent
Misspelling Variants of "jouissent"
Frequency rank: #21,979 in French
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Nearby French words
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