jukevsjuréWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#42,964
“juke” frequency rank
#6,624
“juré” frequency rank
49588
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature juke juré
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Where the eye mixes juke and juré

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 2 letters in sequence.

4 ch
juke
4 ch
juré

Look-alike desk: juke vs juré

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: juke is \dʒuk\ while juré is \ʒy.ʁe\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (noun vs adjective), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 49588, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

juke is recorded at frequency rank #42,964, classified as anoun, pronounced \dʒuk\. 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 49588, this pair ranks #169,419 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of juke vs juré

Shared letters: ju. Private to "juke": ek. Private to "juré": .

"juke" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "juré" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • jukejjuke · jkue · juek · jukke · ujke

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "juke" for "juré" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "juke" is a noun and "juré" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "juke" or "juré"?
"juré" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #6,624 in our French list, against #42,964 for "juke". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Visual near-miss handled. Browse the word pages or a neighbour when the next look-alike shows up.

  • Full dictionary entry for "juke" 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 #169,419 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "juke" and "juré" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "juju vs juke". 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 #169,419 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