juilvsjumpWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: juil is a noun, jump is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“juil” is a noun and “jump” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#29,006
“juil” frequency rank
#19,330
“jump” frequency rank
48336
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature juil jump
Definition Juillet. Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de jumpen.

Letter map: juil vs jump

Shared letters muted; letters that set juil and jump apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

4 ch
juil
4 ch
jump

Part-of-speech tell for juil / jump

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: juil is anoun and jumpaverb. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 48336, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

juil is recorded at frequency rank #29,006, classified as anoun. jump is at rank #19,330, tagged as averb, pronounced \d͡ʒamp\.

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 48336, this pair ranks #179,736 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of juil vs jump

Shared letters: ju. Private to "juil": il. Private to "jump": mp.

"juil" · 4 letters · shape CVVC  ·  "jump" · 4 letters · shape CVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • juiljiul · jjuil · juill · juli · ujil
  • jumpjjump · jmup · jummp · jumpp · jupm · ujmp

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "juil" for "jump" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "juil" is a noun and "jump" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "juil" or "jump" show up more?
"jump" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #19,330 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 "jump" 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 "jump" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #179,736 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "juil" and "jump" 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 #179,736 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