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Which to use

“CJUE” and “cohue” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#37,232
“CJUE” frequency rank
#40,188
“cohue” frequency rank
77420
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature CJUE cohue
Definition Abréviation de la Cour de justice de l’Union européenne, nom de l’institution juridictionnelle de l’Union Européenne depuis le premier décembre 2009. Elle se trouve à Luxembourg. Nom du lieu où les petites justices, dans quelques provinces, se tenaient.

Where the eye mixes CJUE and cohue

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence. CJUE runs 4 letters (CCVV) against cohue's 5 (CVCVV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

4 ch
CJUE
5 ch
cohue

Why the eye confuses CJUE with cohue

A purely visual mix-up. CJUE (\se.ʒi.y.ə\) and cohue (\kɔ.y\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 77420, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

CJUE is recorded at frequency rank #37,232, classified as anoun, pronounced \se.ʒi.y.ə\. cohue is at rank #40,188, tagged as anoun, pronounced \kɔ.y\.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 77420, this pair ranks #28,426 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of CJUE vs cohue

Shared letters: ceu. Private to "CJUE": j. Private to "cohue": ho.

"CJUE" · 4 letters · shape CCVV  ·  "cohue" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • CJUE ← ccjue · cjeu · cjjue · cuje · jcue
  • cohue ← ccohue · choue · coheu · cohhue · couhe · ochue

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "CJUE" for "cohue" ever safe?
No. They are said differently (\se.ʒi.y.ə\ versus \kɔ.y\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
In ordinary French text, does "CJUE" or "cohue" show up more?
"CJUE" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #37,232 in our French list, against #40,188 for "cohue". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.

  • Full dictionary entry for "CJUE" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "cohue" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #28,426 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "CJUE" and "cohue" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "cohue vs conde". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #28,426 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list