journey
/ˈd͡ʒɝni/noun, verb
journey is spelled J-O-U-R-N-E-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is journy: about 300 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 84 of all searches for the word. Journey is a noun meaning “A set amount of travelling, seen as a single unit; a discrete trip, a voyage”. The plural of journey is journeys.
How many letters and syllables are in journey?
| Letters | 7: J-O-U-R-N-E-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 45 times per million words; the 2,253rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, journy, about 300 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell journey?
Journey is spelled J-O-U-R-N-E-Y. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 52 of the searches for journey in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is journey?
Journey appears 45 times per million words in written English, the 2,253rd most frequent word form in the list. The list counts every capitalisation together, so this includes Journey, the name.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce journey?
- US /ˈd͡ʒɝni/
- UK /ˈd͡ʒɜːni/
Journey has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-journey.ogg, En-uk-a_journey.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with journey?
3 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as journey from its last stressed vowel (/ɜɹni/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of journey
- journeys plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- journeying participle, present
- journeyed participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does journey mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A set amount of travelling, seen as a single unit; a discrete trip, a voyage.
The journey to London takes two hours by train.
- 2
Any process or progression likened to a journey, especially one that involves difficulties or personal development.
the journey to political freedom
- 3
The progress of a customer through a system, often a computer system.
We need to map out the user journey and make it more efficient.
- 4
obsoleteA day.
- 5
obsoleteA day's travelling; the distance travelled in a day.
- 6
obsoleteA day's work.
- 7
The weight of finished coins delivered at one time to the Master of the Mint.
- 8
A group of giraffes.
Rolande Bragg (7 December 2023), “The Riding Romance”, in capocagin (Usenet): “Don't be surprised to see elephants or a journey of giraffes pass you from this high point. We rode here for a treehouse brunch and encountered a few elephants a
- 9
The total time spent melting and working one piece.
verb
- 1
To travel, to make a trip or voyage.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Journey in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | voyage , voyager |
| German | Reise, Tour, Fahrt, Anreise , reisen , Weg |
| Portuguese | jornada, viagem, percurso , viajar |
| Spanish | viaje, jornada, viajata, trayecto, singladura, asengladura |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does journey come from?
From Middle English journe, from Old French jornee, from Vulgar Latin *diurnāta, from Late Latin diurnum, from Latin diurnus, from diēs (“day”). Displaced native Old English fær and Old English faru.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).