Jour fixe

/[ˈʒuːɐ̯ ˈfiks]/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

Jour fixe is aGermannoun. It means: fester, wiederkehrender, gemeinsamer Termin einer kleinen Personengruppe Pronounced [ˈʒuːɐ̯ ˈfiks].

Key facts for Jour fixe
PropertyValue
HeadwordJour fixe
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈʒuːɐ̯ ˈfiks]
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Jour fixe is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Jour fixe is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʒuːɐ̯ ˈfiks]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "fester, wiederkehrender, gemeinsamer Termin einer kleinen Personengruppe".

No misspelling variants are generated for Jour fixe in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Jour fixe, spelled J-O-U-R- -F-I-X-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    fester, wiederkehrender, gemeinsamer Termin einer kleinen Personengruppe

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Jour fixe"?
"Jour fixe" is spelled J-O-U-R- -F-I-X-E. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈʒuːɐ̯ ˈfiks].
What does "Jour fixe" mean?
As a noun, "Jour fixe" means: fester, wiederkehrender, gemeinsamer Termin einer kleinen Personengruppe
How do you pronounce "Jour fixe"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Jour fixe" is [ˈʒuːɐ̯ ˈfiks]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Jour fixe" come from?
"Jour fixe" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.