jury

\ʒy.ʁi\

/\ʒy.ʁi\/ noun

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The verdict

“jury” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,146. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#3,146
frequency rank, French
957
“J” headwords
6
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tous les jurés désignés pour une session, ou seulement des douze jurés auxquels une affaire est soumise.

Corpus desk

Index FR-jury · jury · French

jury · rank #3,146 · 6 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #3,146
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 6 variants
  • BOOK-MID 957
  • PHOTO-FINISH job

Nearest frequency peer: job (-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 « jury »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « jury » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

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).

jury vs jus
50% similar
jury vs just
50% similar
jury vs jute
50% similar

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

Key facts for jury
PropertyValue
Headwordjury
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʒy.ʁi\
Letters4
Frequency rank#3,146
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « jury »

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

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « job » (#3,145), « lis » (#3,147), « intégration » (#3,144). Parmi 957 lemmes en « J », « jury » est au #3,146. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 6 spelling variants around jury (IPA \ʒy.ʁi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #3,146 among 957 “J” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for jury, with forms such as "jjury", "jruy", and "jurry". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "jus", "just", "jute", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is jury, spelled J-U-R-Y.

Definition

  1. 1
    Tous les jurés désignés pour une session, ou seulement des douze jurés auxquels une affaire est soumise.
  2. 2
    Réunion de citoyens n’appartenant pas à la magistrature et appelés par tirage au sort à participer à un jugement en cour d’assises.
  3. 3
    Réunion d’arbitres désignés pour décider d’une question qui intéresse l’honneur.
  4. 4
    Commission chargée de prendre une décision, en particulier pour un concours ou un examen.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Sous le code de brumaire an IV, cette institution s’appelait le jury d’accusation par opposition au jury de jugement.
  2. M. le juge d’instruction Guillot demande, avec raison, que l’on enferme aussi étroitement ces candidats à la folie, ces demi-fous, demi-criminels, demi-responsables dont l’acquittement est arraché à la faiblesse et à la crédulité des jurys.

This word in other languages

jury(English)jurado(Español)Jury(Deutsch)júri(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • jjury
  • jruy
  • jurry
  • juryy
  • juyr
  • ujry

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of jury - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

jjury1jruy2jurry1juryy1juyr2ujry2
Edit distance from "jury"

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 "jury"?
"jury" is spelled J-U-R-Y. The IPA pronunciation is \ʒy.ʁi\.
What does "jury" mean?
As a noun, "jury" means: Tous les jurés désignés pour une session, ou seulement des douze jurés auxquels une affaire est soumise.
What words are commonly confused with "jury"?
"jury" is commonly confused with "jus", "just", "jute". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "jury"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "jury" is \ʒy.ʁi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "jury" come from?
"jury" 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 "jury", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

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

abri#3,118with#3,175fins#3,196miss#3,086

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).

odeur6 variantsaimez6 variantsfolie6 variantsraté6 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list