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

#49,750
“jumper” frequency rank
#16,663
“jupes” frequency rank
66413
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature jumper jupes
Definition Cavalier, fil conducteur, habituellement isolé, qui sert de connexion entre deux points d’un circuit imprimé à couche simple. Pluriel de jupe.

Where the eye mixes jumper and jupes

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence. jumper runs 6 letters (CVCCVC) against jupes's 5 (CVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

6 ch
jumper
5 ch
jupes

Look-alike desk: jumper vs jupes

A purely visual mix-up. jumper (\dʒœm.pœʁ\) and jupes (\ʒyp\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 66413, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

jumper is recorded at frequency rank #49,750, classified as anoun, pronounced \dʒœm.pœʁ\. jupes is at rank #16,663, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ʒyp\.

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 66413, this pair ranks #67,940 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of jumper vs jupes

Shared letters: ejpu. Private to "jumper": mr. Private to "jupes": s.

"jumper" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC  ·  "jupes" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • jumperjjumper · jmuper · jumepr · jummper · jumperr · jumpper · jumpre · jupmer
  • jupesjjupes · jpues · jueps · jupess · juppes · jupse · ujpes

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "jumper" and "jupes" be used interchangeably?
No. They are said differently (\dʒœm.pœʁ\ versus \ʒyp\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
In ordinary French text, does "jumper" or "jupes" show up more?
"jupes" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #16,663 in our French list, against #49,750 for "jumper". 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 "jumper" and "jupes" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "jumper" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "jupes" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #67,940 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "jumper" and "jupes" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "jasper vs jumper". 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 #67,940 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