jours
/ˈd͡ʒɝz/
"jours" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“jours” is uncommon English (frequency #76,015 among 796 “J” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,015
- frequency rank, English
- 796
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of jour
Corpus desk
Index EN-jours · jours · English
jours · rank #76,015 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,015
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 796
- PHOTO-FINISH jolting
Nearest frequency peer: jolting (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “jours”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Jenifer
Jenifer
23,992 corpus weight
- jerkin
jerkin
23,991 corpus weight
- Jilin
Jilin
23,989 corpus weight
- jolting
jolting
23,987 corpus weight
- jours
jours
23,986 corpus weight
- Jovian
Jovian
23,985 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “jours” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jours |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈd͡ʒɝz/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #76,015 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “jours” in English
Rare enough to double-check
jours is uncommon English at frequency #76,015 among 796 “J” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈd͡ʒɝz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of jour".
jours has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular English 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is jours, spelled J-O-U-R-S.
Definition
- 1plural of 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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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