jus

\ʒy\

/\ʒy\/ noun

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The verdict

“jus” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #3,768) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#3,768
frequency rank, French
957
“J” headwords
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Solution aqueuse obtenue à partir d’un produit solide par pression, coction, infusion ou tout autre moyen.

Corpus desk

Index FR-jus · jus · French

jus · rank #3,768 · 0 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #3,768
  • LEN-MID 3 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 957
  • PHOTO-FINISH julie

Nearest frequency peer: julie (-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 « jus »

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

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « jus » 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).

jus vs jv
33% similar
jus vs just
75% similar
jus vs jute
50% similar

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

Key facts for jus
PropertyValue
Headwordjus
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʒy\
Letters3
Frequency rank#3,768
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « jus »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).jusse 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 « julie » (#3,767), « Kevin » (#3,769), « kg » (#3,770). Parmi 957 lemmes en « J », « jus » est au #3,768. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for jus is neighbouring look-alikes ("jv", "just", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ʒy\. Frequency #3,768 among 957 “J” headwords. 8 recorded senses keep meaning in play.

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for jus, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "jv", "just", "jute", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is jus, spelled J-U-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Solution aqueuse obtenue à partir d’un produit solide par pression, coction, infusion ou tout autre moyen.
  2. 2
    Liquide sapide et aqueux obtenu à partir d’un aliment solide.
  3. 3
    (Technique de parfumerie) Le parfum tel qu’il apparaît à l’issue des diverses opérations d’élaboration.
  4. 4
    Électricité, courant électrique.
  5. 5
    Café.
  6. 6
    Énergie.
  7. 7
    L’eau (d’une rivière, de la mer).
  8. 8
    Sperme.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Je fus amené à goûter tous les mets étranges qui constituaient le repas. Il y avait de la pieuvre crue marinée dans du jus de citron sauvage.
  2. À l’aide du jus très noir de la noix géante appelée huito, une main facétieuse avait écrit un mot, un seul : Welcome !

This word in other languages

juice(English)zumo(Español)Saft(Deutsch)seiva(Português)

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 "jus"?
"jus" is spelled J-U-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ʒy\.
What does "jus" mean?
As a noun, "jus" means: Solution aqueuse obtenue à partir d’un produit solide par pression, coction, infusion ou tout autre moyen.
What words are commonly confused with "jus"?
"jus" is commonly confused with "jv", "just", "jute". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "jus"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "jus" is \ʒy\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "jus" come from?
"jus" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "jus", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

ali#3,819due#3,838duo#3,839hop#3,853

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list