ju
\ju\
The verdict
“ju” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #15,920) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #15,920
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vous, deuxième personne du pluriel, également singulier de politesse :
Corpus desk
Index FR-ju · ju · French
ju · rank #15,920 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,920
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH joy
Nearest frequency peer: joy (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « ju »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- jogging
jogging
84,083 corpus weight
- joy
joy
84,082 corpus weight
- ju
ju
84,081 corpus weight
- juniors
juniors
84,080 corpus weight
- labrador
labrador
84,079 corpus weight
- laissées
laissées
84,078 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « ju » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | ju |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | \ju\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #15,920 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « ju »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ju is neighbouring look-alikes ("jv", "jus", …), not just typos; it is apronoun pronounced \ju\. Frequency #15,920 among 957 “J” headwords. 5 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for ju, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "jv", "jus", "jul", and more, 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is ju, spelled J-U.
Definition
- 1Vous, deuxième personne du pluriel, également singulier de politesse :
- 2Vous, deuxième personne du pluriel, également singulier de politesse :
- 3Vous, deuxième personne du pluriel, également singulier de politesse :
- 4Vous, deuxième personne du pluriel, également singulier de politesse :
- 5Vous, deuxième personne du pluriel, également singulier de politesse :
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.