judo
\ʒy.do\
The verdict
“judo” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,603. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,603
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Art martial japonais issu du jiu-jitsu, aujourd’hui sport olympique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-judo · judo · French
judo · rank #12,603 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,603
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH jouit
Nearest frequency peer: jouit (-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 « judo »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- introduite
introduite
87,401 corpus weight
- Janet
Janet
87,400 corpus weight
- jouit
jouit
87,399 corpus weight
- judo
judo
87,398 corpus weight
- juristes
juristes
87,397 corpus weight
- justifiée
justifiée
87,396 corpus weight
What this shows « judo » 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 | judo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒy.do\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #12,603 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « judo »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around judo (IPA \ʒy.do\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,603 among 957 “J” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Art martial japonais issu du jiu-jitsu, aujourd’hui sport olympique.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for judo, with forms such as "jduo", "jjudo", and "juddo". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "jus", "jul", "juin", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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. The correct French form is judo, spelled J-U-D-O.
Definition
- 1Art martial japonais issu du jiu-jitsu, aujourd’hui sport olympique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how judo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous voici à l’automne 1966. Cela fait trois ans et demi […] que le roi Constantin s’initie aux secrets de la lutte japonaise. Il a commencé par le jiu-jitsu, a continué avec le judo et maintenant, depuis un an, il s’adonne aux secrets de l’extraordinaire karaté.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- jduo
- jjudo
- juddo
- juod
- ujdo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of judo - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).