jumeau
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#17,176
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
jumeau is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui est issu du même accouchement que son frère ou sa sœur. Pronounced \ʒy.mo\. Often confused with jument and jumelé.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jumeau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \ʒy.mo\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #17,176 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for jumeau is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒy.mo\. Corpus data places it at rank #17,176 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for jumeau, with forms such as "jjumeau", "jmueau", and "juemau". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "jument", "jumelé", "jumeaux", 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 jumeau, spelled J-U-M-E-A-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui est issu du même accouchement que son frère ou sa sœur.
- 2En parlant d’un fruit, qui est attaché à un autre.
- 3En parlant d’un lit, qui a la même forme et la même dimension qu’un autre lit placé parallèlement dans la même pièce.
- 4En parlant d’un lit, qui a une taille normalisée un matelas, 39×75 pouces, soit 100×190 cm.
- 5En parlant d’un des petits muscles qui concourt aux mouvements de la jambe, qui forme un ensemble avec l’autre.
- 6En parlant d’une artère, d’une veine, d’un nerf, qui aboutit dans les muscles jumeaux.
- 7Morceau de bœuf situé dans l'épaule, avec le paleron et la macreuse à pot-au-feu.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: jjumeau,jmueau,juemau,jumaeu,jumeua,jummeau,ujmeau
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for jumeau
Misspelling Variants of "jumeau"
Frequency rank: #17,176 in French
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