jul
\juːl\
The verdict
“jul” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #29,007) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #29,007
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Noël (fête).
Corpus desk
Index FR-jul · jul · French
jul · rank #29,007 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,007
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH juil
Nearest frequency peer: juil (-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 « jul »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- ita
ita
70,999 corpus weight
- juil
juil
70,995 corpus weight
- jul
jul
70,994 corpus weight
- justificatif
justificatif
70,993 corpus weight
- kiff
kiff
70,991 corpus weight
- kiffer
kiffer
70,990 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « jul » 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 | jul |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \juːl\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #29,007 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « jul »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for jul is neighbouring look-alikes ("jv", "jus", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \juːl\. Frequency #29,007 among 957 “J” headwords. Gloss: "Noël (fête).".
jul has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "jv", "jus", "jury", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is jul, spelled J-U-L.
Definition
- 1Noël (fête).
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).