ajour
French, noun/a.ʒuʁ/
ajour is spelled A-J-O-U-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 34 million words in written French, the 186,002nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ajour is a French masculine noun meaning “aperture, slit that lets in daylight” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Fente, ouverture laissant passer le jour”.
What does ajour mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineaperture, slit that lets in daylight
- 2
masculineopenwork
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Fente, ouverture laissant passer le jour.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of ajour
- ajours plural
- à-jour
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ajour?
- /a.ʒuʁ/
- \a.ʒuʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is ajour in French?
ajour appears about once in every 34 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).