juicevsjuilTell them apart

Which to use

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

#39,860
“juice” frequency rank
#29,006
“juil” frequency rank
68866
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature juice juil
Definition Jus ; Liquide obtenu en pressant une plante, en particulier un fruit. Juillet.

Letter map: juice vs juil

Shared letters muted; letters that set juice and juil apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

5 ch
juice
4 ch
juil

Pair insight - juice / juil

juice and juil are indexed as a confusable French pair. We have no recorded pronunciation or part of speech for both members, so the spelling overlap is what we can show you: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 68866, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

juice is recorded at frequency rank #39,860, classified as anoun, pronounced \ˈdʒus\. juil is at rank #29,006, tagged as anoun.

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 68866, this pair ranks #57,377 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of juice vs juil

Shared letters: iju. Private to "juice": ce. Private to "juil": l.

"juice" · 5 letters · shape CVVCV  ·  "juil" · 4 letters · shape CVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • juicejiuce · jjuice · jucie · juicce · juiec · ujice
  • juiljiul · jjuil · juill · juli · ujil

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "juice" and "juil" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
Frequency check: "juice" vs "juil" - which ranks higher?
"juil" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #29,006 in our French list, against #39,860 for "juice". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Pair "juice" vs "juil" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "juice" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "juil" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #57,377 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "juice" and "juil" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "judge vs juice". 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 #57,377 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