juge
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,065
in French word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
juge is aFrenchnoun. It means: Magistrat investi par autorité publique du pouvoir de dire le droit ou reconnaître le fait et de la fonction d’appliquer la loi dans les affaires litigieuses. Pronounced \ʒyʒ\. It ranks #1,065 in French word frequency. Often confused with jus and jul.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | juge |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒyʒ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #1,065 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for juge is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒyʒ\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,065 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for juge, with forms such as "jgue", "jjuge", and "jueg". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "jus", "jul", "juin", and more, 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 juge, spelled J-U-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Magistrat investi par autorité publique du pouvoir de dire le droit ou reconnaître le fait et de la fonction d’appliquer la loi dans les affaires litigieuses.
- 2Tribunal, absolument et collectivement.
- 3Personne appelée à faire partie d’un jury.
- 4Arbitre, toute personne choisie pour prononcer sur un différend, ou au jugement, à l’opinion de laquelle on s’en rapporte sur quelque chose.
- 5Personne ou autorité qui juge.
- 6Celui, celle qui est capable de juger d’une chose.
- 7Se dit en parlant des sens, de la conscience, etc.
- 8Épouse d’un juge.
- 9Il se dit aussi de certains magistrats suprêmes qui gouvernèrent le peuple juif durant la période qui commence à la mort de Josué et qui finit à la naissance de Samuel.
- 10Souverain de l’un des judicats de Sardaigne.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: jgue,jjuge,jueg,jugge,ujge
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for juge
Misspelling Variants of "juge"
Frequency rank: #1,065 in French
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