jumbo
\dʒœm.bo\
The verdict
“jumbo” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,020. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,020
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chariot à portique équipé de perforatrices, servant au forage des trous de mine dans le percement des souterrains.
Corpus desk
Index FR-jumbo · jumbo · French
jumbo · rank #36,020 · 7 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,020
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH jouis
Nearest frequency peer: jouis (-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 « jumbo »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- isla
isla
63,986 corpus weight
- jouis
jouis
63,982 corpus weight
- jumbo
jumbo
63,981 corpus weight
- justificati…
justificatifs
63,980 corpus weight
- Karachi
Karachi
63,979 corpus weight
- Kern
Kern
63,978 corpus weight
What this shows « jumbo » 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 | jumbo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dʒœm.bo\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #36,020 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « jumbo »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around jumbo (IPA \dʒœm.bo\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #36,020 among 957 “J” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Chariot à portique équipé de perforatrices, servant au forage des trous de mine dans le percement des souterrains.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for jumbo, with forms such as "jjumbo", "jmubo", and "jubmo". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "jump", "Juno", "judo", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 jumbo, spelled J-U-M-B-O.
Definition
- 1Chariot à portique équipé de perforatrices, servant au forage des trous de mine dans le percement des souterrains.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how jumbo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est seulement au xxᵉ siècle qu'apparurent les grandes machines qui devaient transformer les ruches humaines en chantiers mécaniques − jumbos pour les tunnels, bétonneuses mécaniques, bulldozers.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- jjumbo
- jmubo
- jubmo
- jumbbo
- jummbo
- jumob
- ujmbo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of jumbo - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).