à grandes journées

/\a ɡʁɑ̃d ʒuʁ.ne\/ adv

Letters

18 characters

Language

French

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à grandes journées is anFrenchadv. It means: En avançant rapidement, en faisant de longues étapes. Pronounced \a ɡʁɑ̃d ʒuʁ.ne\.

Key facts for à grandes journées
PropertyValue
Headwordà grandes journées
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdv
IPA\a ɡʁɑ̃d ʒuʁ.ne\
Letters18
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

à grandes journées is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for à grandes journées is 18 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a ɡʁɑ̃d ʒuʁ.ne\. 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: "En avançant rapidement, en faisant de longues étapes.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for à grandes journées in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 French form is à grandes journées, spelled À- -G-R-A-N-D-E-S- -J-O-U-R-N-É-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    En avançant rapidement, en faisant de longues étapes.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "à grandes journées"?
"à grandes journées" is spelled À- -G-R-A-N-D-E-S- -J-O-U-R-N-É-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \a ɡʁɑ̃d ʒuʁ.ne\.
What does "à grandes journées" mean?
As an adv, "à grandes journées" means: En avançant rapidement, en faisant de longues étapes.
How do you pronounce "à grandes journées"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "à grandes journées" is \a ɡʁɑ̃d ʒuʁ.ne\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "à grandes journées" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.