journaliste
\ʒuʁ.na.list\
The verdict
“journaliste” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #1,415 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #1,415
- frequency rank, French
- 11
- letters
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Personne qui fait, qui rédige un journal, qui travaille, à la rédaction d’un journal.
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 | journaliste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒuʁ.na.list\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #1,415 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “journaliste” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for journaliste is 11 letters long, classified as a noun, 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 generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for journaliste, with forms such as "jjournaliste", "jorunaliste", and "jounraliste". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "journalistes", "journalisme", "journalière", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 journaliste, spelled J-O-U-R-N-A-L-I-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Personne qui fait, qui rédige un journal, qui travaille, à la rédaction d’un journal.
- 2Personne participant à la rédaction des informations diffusées par les médias écrits ou audio-visuels.
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
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of journaliste - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Using “journaliste”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is J-O-U-R-N-A-L-I-S-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʒuʁ.na.list\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “journalistes” - see the side-by-side comparison. journaliste vs journalistes
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.