juillet
\ʒɥi.jɛ\
The verdict
“juillet” is in the everyday core of French, ranked #508 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #508
- frequency rank, French
- 7
- letters
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Septième mois de l’année. Il compte trente-et-un jours.
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 | juillet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒɥi.jɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #508 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “juillet” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for juillet is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒɥi.jɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #508 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Septième mois de l’année. Il compte trente-et-un jours.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for juillet, with forms such as "jiullet", "jjuillet", and "juilelt". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Juliet", "jaillit", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is juillet, spelled J-U-I-L-L-E-T.
Definition
- 1Septième mois de l’année. Il compte trente-et-un jours.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: jiullet,jjuillet,juilelt,juilet,juillett,juillte,julilet,ujillet
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of juillet - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 “juillet”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is J-U-I-L-L-E-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʒɥi.jɛ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “Juliet” - see the side-by-side comparison. juillet vs Juliet
- 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.