à un de ces jours

/\a œ̃ dsɛ ʒuʁ\/ intj

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Language

French

word origin

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similar word pairs

à un de ces jours is anFrenchintj. It means: Façon de parler elliptique et familière qu’on emploie en quittant une personne pour exprimer qu’on se propose ou qu’on a le désir de la revoir, sans préciser quand, de façon floue. Pronounced \a œ̃ dsɛ ʒuʁ\.

Key facts for à un de ces jours
PropertyValue
Headwordà un de ces jours
LanguageFrench
Part of speechIntj
IPA\a œ̃ dsɛ ʒuʁ\
Letters17
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

à un de ces jours is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for à un de ces jours is 17 letters long, classified as anintj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a œ̃ dsɛ ʒuʁ\. 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: "Façon de parler elliptique et familière qu’on emploie en quittant une personne pour exprimer qu’on se propose ou qu’on a le désir de la revoir, sans préciser quand, de façon floue.".

No misspelling variants are generated for à un de ces jours in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.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 un de ces jours, spelled À- -U-N- -D-E- -C-E-S- -J-O-U-R-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Façon de parler elliptique et familière qu’on emploie en quittant une personne pour exprimer qu’on se propose ou qu’on a le désir de la revoir, sans préciser quand, de façon floue.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "à un de ces jours"?
"à un de ces jours" is spelled À- -U-N- -D-E- -C-E-S- -J-O-U-R-S. The IPA pronunciation is \a œ̃ dsɛ ʒuʁ\.
What does "à un de ces jours" mean?
As an intj, "à un de ces jours" means: Façon de parler elliptique et familière qu’on emploie en quittant une personne pour exprimer qu’on se propose ou qu’on a le désir de la revoir, sans préciser quand, de façon floue.
How do you pronounce "à un de ces jours"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "à un de ces jours" is \a œ̃ dsɛ ʒuʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "à un de ces jours" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.