ajourner

\a.ʒuʁ.ne\

/\a.ʒuʁ.ne\/ verb

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The verdict

“ajourner” is uncommon French (frequency #65,672 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#65,672
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Remettre à un autre jour la poursuite d’une affaire.

Corpus desk

Index FR-ajourner · ajourner · French

ajourner · rank #65,672 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #65,672
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH aiguillages

Nearest frequency peer: aiguillages (-1 rank slots)

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.

Rangs de longue queue près de « ajourner »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ajourner » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for ajourner
PropertyValue
Headwordajourner
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\a.ʒuʁ.ne\
Letters8
Frequency rank#65,672
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « ajourner » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.ajournertombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « aiguillages » (#65,671), « Alana » (#65,673), « albumine » (#65,674). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « ajourner » est au #65,672. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

ajourner is uncommon French at frequency #65,672 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.ʒuʁ.ne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for ajourner, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is ajourner, spelled A-J-O-U-R-N-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Remettre à un autre jour la poursuite d’une affaire.
  2. 2
    Renvoyer, en matière de délibération, à un certain jour ou à un temps indéterminé.
  3. 3
    Assigner quelqu’un à un certain jour en justice.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how ajourner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Bien entendu le projet est amputé aussitôt qu'établi. En effet le gros ouvrage à implanter sur les hauteurs de Vaux-lès-Mouzon est ajourné alors qu'il devait former le pilier ouest de la position […].
  2. — La Chambre, consultée, s'ajourne au lendemain ; les députés, avides de nouvelles, se hâtent de se séparer.

This word in other languages

adjourn(English)aplazar(Español)vertagen(Deutsch)adiar(Português)

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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "ajourner"?
"ajourner" is spelled A-J-O-U-R-N-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \a.ʒuʁ.ne\.
What does "ajourner" mean?
As a verb, "ajourner" means: Remettre à un autre jour la poursuite d’une affaire.
How do you pronounce "ajourner"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "ajourner" is \a.ʒuʁ.ne\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "ajourner" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "ajourner", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

albumine#65,674Allonnes#65,676anémones#65,695arrondit#65,706

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list