juilvsjulioTell them apart

Which to use

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

#29,006
“juil” frequency rank
#19,328
“julio” frequency rank
48334
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature juil julio
Definition Juillet. Mois de juillet, septième mois de l’année.

Letter map: juil vs julio

Shared letters muted; letters that set juil and julio apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. juil runs 4 letters (CVVC) against julio's 5 (CVCVV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

4 ch
juil
5 ch
julio

Corpus notes: juil and julio

juil and julio 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 48334, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

juil is recorded at frequency rank #29,006, classified as anoun. julio is at rank #19,328, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ˈxu.ljo\.

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 48334, this pair ranks #179,752 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of juil vs julio

Shared letters: ijlu. Private to "juil": -. Private to "julio": o.

"juil" · 4 letters · shape CVVC  ·  "julio" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • juil ← jiul · jjuil · juill · juli · ujil
  • julio ← jjulio · jluio · juilo · jullio · juloi · ujlio

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "juil" and "julio" 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.
In ordinary French text, does "juil" or "julio" show up more?
"julio" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #19,328 in our French list, against #29,006 for "juil". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "juil" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "julio" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #179,752 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "juil" and "julio" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "juil vs juju". 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 #179,752 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