jerezvsjuréWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: jerez is a noun, juré is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“jerez” is a noun and “juré” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#49,746
“jerez” frequency rank
#6,624
“juré” frequency rank
56370
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature jerez juré
Definition Vin d’Espagne très renommé récolté en Andalousie, aux environs de Jerez. Très sec, il se dénomme sherry, demi sec manzanilla et doux il se dénomme pajarete. Qui est consacré dans une fonction par le serment qu’il a prêté de l’exercer scrupuleusement.

Where the eye mixes jerez and juré

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 2 letters in sequence. jerez runs 5 letters (CVCVC) against juré's 4 (CVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

5 ch
jerez
4 ch
juré

Look-alike desk: jerez vs juré

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: jerez is \xe.ʁɛs\ while juré is \ʒy.ʁe\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (noun vs adjective), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 56370, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

jerez is recorded at frequency rank #49,746, classified as anoun, pronounced \xe.ʁɛs\. juré is at rank #6,624, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ʒy.ʁe\.

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 56370, this pair ranks #121,496 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of jerez vs juré

Shared letters: jr. Private to "jerez": ez. Private to "juré": .

"jerez" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC  ·  "juré" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • jerezejrez · jeerz · jerezz · jerrez · jerze · jjerez · jreez

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "jerez" and "juré" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "jerez" is a noun and "juré" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "jerez" or "juré" show up more?
"juré" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #6,624 in our French list, against #49,746 for "jerez". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Eye-level mix-up between "jerez" and "juré" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "jerez" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "juré" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #121,496 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "jerez" and "juré" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "jerez vs jurée". 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 #121,496 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