journal
\ʒuʁ.nal\
The verdict
“journal” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #824. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #824
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est relatif à chaque jour.
Corpus desk
Index FR-journal · journal · French
journal · rank #824 · 10 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #824
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH honneur
Nearest frequency peer: honneur (-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 « journal »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- faisant
faisant
99,180 corpus weight
- gagner
gagner
99,179 corpus weight
- honneur
honneur
99,178 corpus weight
- journal
journal
99,177 corpus weight
- matière
matière
99,176 corpus weight
- ouest
ouest
99,175 corpus weight
What this shows « journal » 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 | journal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʒuʁ.nal\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #824 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « journal »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around journal (IPA \ʒuʁ.nal\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #824 among 957 “J” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui est relatif à chaque jour.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for journal, with forms such as "jjournal", "jorunal", and "jounral". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "journée", "journey", "journaux", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is journal, spelled J-O-U-R-N-A-L.
Definition
- 1Qui est relatif à chaque jour.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how journal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Livre journal, registre où l’on écrit, jour par jour et de suite, ce qu’on a reçu ou payé, acheté ou vendu, etc.
Je me plains à mes vers, si j'ai quelque regret : Je me ris avec eux, je leur dis mon secret, Comme étant de mon cœur les plus sûrs secrétaires. Aussi ne veux-je tant les peigner et friser, Et de plus braves noms ne les veux déguiser Que de papiers journaux ou bien de commentaires.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- jjournal
- jorunal
- jounral
- jouranl
- journall
- journla
- journnal
- jourrnal
- juornal
- ojurnal
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of journal - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "journal", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).