jours

Name: jours, German Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

[ʒuʁ]

/[ʒuʁ]/ noun

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“jours” is uncommon German (frequency #90,489 among 699 “J” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#90,489
frequency rank, German: 699
“J” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plural des Substantivs jour

Corpus desk

Index DE-jours · jours · German

jours · rank #90,489 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

FREQ-RARE #90,489
LEN-MID 5 letters
VOW-2 2 vowels
CONFUS-0 No pairs
VAR-0 0 variants
BOOK-MID 699
PHOTO-FINISH Jugendlichkeit

Nearest frequency peer: Jugendlichkeit (+1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Jett

9,516
jeweiliger

9,515
Joggerin

9,514
jours

9,512
Jugendlichk…

9,511
Jungtieren

9,510

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „jours“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Key facts for jours
Property	Value
Headword	jours
Language	German
Part of speech	Noun
IPA	[ʒuʁ]
Letters	5
Frequency rank	#90,489
Misspellings tracked	0
Confusable pairs	0
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „jours“ im Deutschen

Diese Skala geht vom Kern des Alltagdeutschen (links) bis zum seltenen Langschwanz (rechts).joursfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#90,489

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Ticks laufen logarithmisch; jeder ist rund zehnmal seltener. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „Jugendlichkeit“ (#90,490), „Joggerin“ (#90,487), „Jungtieren“ (#90,491). Unter 699 „J“-Lemmata liegt „jours“ bei #90,489. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

jours is uncommon German at frequency #90,489 among 699 “J” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ʒuʁ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Plural des Substantivs jour".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for jours, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is jours, spelled J-O-U-R-S.

Definition

1
Plural des Substantivs jour

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "jours"?

"jours" is spelled J-O-U-R-S. The IPA pronunciation is [ʒuʁ].

What does "jours" mean?

As a noun, "jours" means: Plural des Substantivs jour

How do you pronounce "jours"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "jours" is [ʒuʁ]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "jours" come from?

"jours" is a German word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.

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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "jours", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Kietz#90,507 Hoorn#90,439 haina#90,380 grätz#90,363