jupe

\ʒyp\

/\ʒyp\/ noun

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The verdict

“jupe” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #7,720) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#7,720
frequency rank, French
957
“J” headwords
4
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partie de l’habillement féminin qui descend depuis la ceinture plus ou moins bas, suivant la mode.

Corpus desk

Index FR-jupe · jupe · French

jupe · rank #7,720 · 4 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #7,720
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-LOW 4 variants
  • BOOK-MID 957
  • PHOTO-FINISH inédit

Nearest frequency peer: inédit (-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 « jupe »

Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « jupe » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.

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).

jupe vs jus
50% similar
jupe vs jury
50% similar
jupe vs just
50% similar

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

Key facts for jupe
PropertyValue
Headwordjupe
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʒyp\
Letters4
Frequency rank#7,720
Misspellings tracked4
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « jupe »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.jupese place ici:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « inédit » (#7,719), « Laser » (#7,721), « intermédiaires » (#7,718). Parmi 957 lemmes en « J », « jupe » est au #7,720. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for jupe is neighbouring look-alikes ("jus", "jury", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ʒyp\. Frequency #7,720 among 957 “J” headwords. 9 recorded senses keep meaning in play.

Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for jupe, with forms such as "jjupe", "jpue", and "juep". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "jus", "jury", "just", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is jupe, spelled J-U-P-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Partie de l’habillement féminin qui descend depuis la ceinture plus ou moins bas, suivant la mode.
  2. 2
    Femme.
  3. 3
    Partie de certains vêtements d’homme.
  4. 4
    partie d’une pièce mécanique montée sur un axe, qui entoure l’axe et s’en éloigne légèrement
  5. 5
    Revêtement appliqué sur les parois d’une fosse ou installé sur une armature, de manière à former un bassin étanche.
  6. 6
    Élément de structure, généralement cylindrique ou tronconique, qui assure la continuité du profil aérodynamique d’un lanceur.
  7. 7
    Partie inférieure d'un volant généralement en plumes ou en plastique lui permettant de se soutenir quelque temps en l’air.
  8. 8
    Technique de rédaction d'une nouvelle consistant à commencer par le plus important.
  9. 9
    Jupe de protection.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how jupe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Et Pausole observait debout les révélations successives d’un corps teinté, ferme, vivace, tandis qu’elle ouvrait tour à tour la chemisette bossue, la jupe monastique, le difforme pantalon blanc.
  2. Elle ôte sa robe et va en chercher une autre : une jupe sombre et une chemisette.

Synonyms

cotillon

This word in other languages

skirt(English)falda(Español)Rock(Deutsch)saia(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • jjupe
  • jpue
  • juep
  • ujpe

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

jjupe1jpue2juep2ujpe2
Edit distance from "jupe"

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 "jupe"?
"jupe" is spelled J-U-P-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʒyp\.
What does "jupe" mean?
As a noun, "jupe" means: Partie de l’habillement féminin qui descend depuis la ceinture plus ou moins bas, suivant la mode.
What words are commonly confused with "jupe"?
"jupe" is commonly confused with "jus", "jury", "just". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "jupe"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "jupe" is \ʒyp\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "jupe" come from?
"jupe" 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 "jupe", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

oral#7,734Gold#7,702Gary#7,700full#7,698

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list