juke

\dʒuk\

/\dʒuk\/ noun

The verdict

“juke” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #42,964. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#42,964
frequency rank, French
957
“J” headwords
5
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bar dansant.

Corpus desk

Index FR-juke · juke · French

juke · rank #42,964 · 5 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #42,964
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 5 variants
  • BOOK-MID 957
  • PHOTO-FINISH joaillier

Nearest frequency peer: joaillier (-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 « juke »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « juke » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

juke vs jus
50% similar
juke vs jul
50% similar
juke vs jury
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for juke
PropertyValue
Headwordjuke
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\dʒuk\
Letters4
Frequency rank#42,964
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « juke »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).jukese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « joaillier » (#42,963), « justiciables » (#42,965), « justifierait » (#42,966). Parmi 957 lemmes en « J », « juke » est au #42,964. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 5 spelling variants around juke (IPA \dʒuk\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #42,964 among 957 “J” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Bar dansant.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for juke, with forms such as "jjuke", "jkue", and "juek". 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", "jury", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is juke, spelled J-U-K-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Bar dansant.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • jjuke
  • jkue
  • juek
  • jukke
  • ujke

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of juke - 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.

jjuke1jkue2juek2jukke1ujke2
Edit distance from "juke"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "juke"?
"juke" is spelled J-U-K-E. The IPA pronunciation is \dʒuk\.
What does "juke" mean?
As a noun, "juke" means: Bar dansant.
What words are commonly confused with "juke"?
"juke" is commonly confused with "jus", "jul", "jury". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "juke"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "juke" is \dʒuk\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "juke" come from?
"juke" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "juke", not the corpus desk frequency band.

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).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list