jurisprudence

/\ʒy.ʁis.pʁy.dɑ̃s\/ noun

Letters

13 characters

Frequency Rank

#8,872

in French word usage

Misspellings

20

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

jurisprudence is aFrenchnoun. It means: Science du droit et des lois. Pronounced \ʒy.ʁis.pʁy.dɑ̃s\. It ranks #8,872 in French word frequency.

Key facts for jurisprudence
PropertyValue
Headwordjurisprudence
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʒy.ʁis.pʁy.dɑ̃s\
Letters13
Frequency rank#8,872
Misspellings tracked20
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of jurisprudence in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for jurisprudence is 13 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒy.ʁis.pʁy.dɑ̃s\. Corpus data places it at rank #8,872 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 20 documented wrong-spelling variants for jurisprudence, with forms such as "jjurisprudence", "jruisprudence", and "juirsprudence". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 jurisprudence, spelled J-U-R-I-S-P-R-U-D-E-N-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Science du droit et des lois.
  2. 2
    Ensemble des décisions rendues par les différentes juridictions, dans chaque pays ou sur une matière, constituant une source de droit.
  3. 3
    Ensemble des décisions rendues par un tribunal ; par extension, manière dont le tribunal juge habituellement telle ou telle question conformément à cet ensemble de décisions.
  4. 4
    Principe validé ou établi par un premier événement qui justifie les événements similaires suivants.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: jjurisprudence,jruisprudence,juirsprudence,juripsrudence,jurispprudence,jurisprduence,jurisprrudence,jurispruddence,jurisprudecne,jurisprudencce,jurisprudenec,jurisprudennce,jurisprudnece,jurispruednce,jurispurdence,jurisrpudence,jurissprudence,jurrisprudence,jursiprudence,ujrisprudence

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for jurisprudence

Misspelling Variants of "jurisprudence"

jjurisprudence14jruisprudence13juirsprudence13juripsrudence13jurispprudence14jurisprduence13jurisprrudence14jurispruddence14
Misspelling Variants of "jurisprudence"

Frequency rank: #8,872 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "jurisprudence"?
"jurisprudence" is spelled J-U-R-I-S-P-R-U-D-E-N-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʒy.ʁis.pʁy.dɑ̃s\.
What does "jurisprudence" mean?
As a noun, "jurisprudence" means: Science du droit et des lois.
What are common misspellings of "jurisprudence"?
Common misspellings include "jjurisprudence", "jruisprudence", "juirsprudence", "juripsrudence", "jurispprudence". The correct spelling is "jurisprudence".
How do you pronounce "jurisprudence"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "jurisprudence" is \ʒy.ʁis.pʁy.dɑ̃s\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "jurisprudence" come from?
"jurisprudence" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.