youth
\juːθ\
The verdict
“youth” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,665. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,665
- frequency rank, French
- 198
- “Y” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Jeunesse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-youth · youth · French
youth · rank #27,665 · 7 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,665
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 198
- PHOTO-FINISH Wyatt
Nearest frequency peer: Wyatt (-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 « youth »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- watt
watt
72,338 corpus weight
- Wyatt
Wyatt
72,337 corpus weight
- youth
youth
72,336 corpus weight
- échevin
échevin
72,335 corpus weight
- écusson
écusson
72,334 corpus weight
- éditorialis…
éditorialiste
72,333 corpus weight
What this shows « youth » 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 | youth |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \juːθ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #27,665 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « youth »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around youth (IPA \juːθ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,665 among 198 “Y” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for youth, with forms such as "oyuth", "yotuh", and "youht". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "you", "your", "Youn", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is youth, spelled Y-O-U-T-H.
Definition
- 1Jeunesse.
- 2Jeune, jeune homme, jeune femme.
- 3La jeunesse, les jeunes.
- 4Jouvence.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how youth appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The three ages of man: youth, middle age and "my word you do look well". – June Whitfield
The policeman arrested the two youths who were causing a disturbance.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oyuth
- yotuh
- youht
- youthh
- youtth
- yuoth
- yyouth
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of youth - 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.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "youth", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).