journaliste
\ʒuʁ.na.list\
The verdict
“journaliste” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,415. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,415
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne qui fait, qui rédige un journal, qui travaille, à la rédaction d’un journal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-journaliste · journaliste · French
journaliste · rank #1,415 · 16 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,415
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH jeudi
Nearest frequency peer: jeudi (-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 « journaliste »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- etre
etre
98,589 corpus weight
- festival
festival
98,588 corpus weight
- jeudi
jeudi
98,587 corpus weight
- journaliste
journaliste
98,586 corpus weight
- nul
nul
98,584 corpus weight
- perte
perte
98,583 corpus weight
What this shows « journaliste » 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 | 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) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « journaliste »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around journaliste (IPA \ʒuʁ.na.list\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,415 among 957 “J” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how journaliste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La veille du jour où il arrêta Eugène sur le cours Sauvaire, il avait publié, dans l’Indépendant, un article terrible sur les menées du clergé, en réponse à un entrefilet de Vuillet, qui accusait les républicains de vouloir démolir les églises. Vuillet était la bête noire d’Aristide. Il ne se passait pas de semaine sans que les deux journalistes échangeas…
J’accomplis pourtant ma besogne, ce jour-là. Triste besogne de journaliste, besogne sans conviction, mal payée et bien faite pour vous guérir à tout jamais de l’ambition d’écrire dans les journaux.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "journaliste", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).