sojourn
/ˈsɒd͡ʒən/noun, verb
sojourn is spelled S-O-J-O-U-R-N. The wrong spelling people search most is sojurn: about 150 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 16 of all searches for the word. Sojourn is a noun meaning “A short stay somewhere”. The plural of sojourn is sojourns.
How many letters and syllables are in sojourn?
| Letters | 7: S-O-J-O-U-R-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 2 million words; the 38,416th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, sojurn, about 150 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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).
How do you spell sojourn?
Sojourn is spelled S-O-J-O-U-R-N. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 14 of the searches for sojourn 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 sojourn?
Sojourn appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 38,416th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce sojourn?
- UK /ˈsɒd͡ʒən/
- UK /ˈsɒd͡ʒɜːn/
- UK /ˈsəʊd͡ʒɜːn/
Sojourn 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-sojourn.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of sojourn
- sojourns plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- sojourning participle, present
- sojourned participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does sojourn mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A short stay somewhere.
- 2
A temporary residence.
verb
- 1
To reside somewhere temporarily, especially as a guest or lodger.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Sojourn in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | séjour , séjourner |
| German | Aufenthalt , sich aufhalten, verweilen , Unterkunft, Obdach, Übernachtungsmöglichkeit |
| Portuguese | estadia , peregrinar, estanciar |
| Spanish | estadía, estada, estancia, estalaje, permanencia , residencia temporánea |
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 sojourn come from?
From Middle English sojourne (noun) and sojournen (verb), from Old French sojor, sojorner (modern séjour, séjourner), from (assumed) Vulgar Latin *subdiurnāre, from Latin sub- (“under, a little over”) + Late Latin diurnus (“lasting for a day”), from Latin dies (“day”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).