journaliste

/\ʒuʁ.na.list\/ noun

Letters

11 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,415

in French word usage

Misspellings

16

tracked variants

Confusables

3

similar word pairs

journaliste is aFrenchnoun. It means: Personne qui fait, qui rédige un journal, qui travaille, à la rédaction d’un journal. Pronounced \ʒuʁ.na.list\. It ranks #1,415 in French word frequency. Often confused with journalistes and journalisme.

Key facts for journaliste
PropertyValue
Headwordjournaliste
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʒuʁ.na.list\
Letters11
Frequency rank#1,415
Misspellings tracked16
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of journaliste in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for journaliste is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒuʁ.na.list\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,415 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 16 documented wrong-spelling variants for journaliste, with forms such as "jjournaliste", "jorunaliste", and "jounraliste". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "journalistes", "journalisme", "journalière", 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 journaliste, spelled J-O-U-R-N-A-L-I-S-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Personne qui fait, qui rédige un journal, qui travaille, à la rédaction d’un journal.
  2. 2
    Personne participant à la rédaction des informations diffusées par les médias écrits ou audio-visuels.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: jjournaliste,jorunaliste,jounraliste,jouranliste,journailste,journaliset,journalisste,journalistte,journalitse,journalliste,journalsite,journlaiste,journnaliste,jourrnaliste,juornaliste,ojurnaliste

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for journaliste

Misspelling Variants of "journaliste"

jjournaliste12jorunaliste11jounraliste11jouranliste11journailste11journaliset11journalisste12journalistte12
Misspelling Variants of "journaliste"

Frequency rank: #1,415 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "journaliste"?
"journaliste" is spelled J-O-U-R-N-A-L-I-S-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʒuʁ.na.list\.
What does "journaliste" mean?
As a noun, "journaliste" means: Personne qui fait, qui rédige un journal, qui travaille, à la rédaction d’un journal.
What words are commonly confused with "journaliste"?
"journaliste" is commonly confused with "journalistes", "journalisme", "journalière". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "journaliste"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "journaliste" is \ʒuʁ.na.list\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "journaliste" come from?
"journaliste" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.