jumeau
\ʒy.mo\
The verdict
“jumeau” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,176. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,176
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est issu du même accouchement que son frère ou sa sœur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-jumeau · jumeau · French
jumeau · rank #17,176 · 7 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,176
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH judas
Nearest frequency peer: judas (-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 « jumeau »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Japan
Japan
82,828 corpus weight
- Johan
Johan
82,827 corpus weight
- judas
judas
82,826 corpus weight
- jumeau
jumeau
82,825 corpus weight
- June
June
82,824 corpus weight
- Legrand
Legrand
82,823 corpus weight
What this shows « jumeau » 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 | jumeau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʒy.mo\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #17,176 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « jumeau »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around jumeau (IPA \ʒy.mo\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #17,176 among 957 “J” headwords. Wiktionary lists 7 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for jumeau, with forms such as "jjumeau", "jmueau", and "juemau". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. 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.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is jumeau, spelled J-U-M-E-A-U.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how jumeau appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Denti et pagre : s’il est aussi méfiant que le pagre et lui ressemble comme un frère jumeau, la robe du denti est plus bleutée alors que celle du pagre est rose-orangée.
Un avocat jumeau. — Des grains de raisins jumeaux. — Des cerises jumelles.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- jjumeau
- jmueau
- juemau
- jumaeu
- jumeua
- jummeau
- ujmeau
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of jumeau - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).