au goût du jour
\o ɡu dy ʒuʁ\
The verdict
“au goût du jour” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - À la mode ; selon les goûts, les mœurs du moment.
Corpus desk
Index FR-au-gout-du-jour · au goût du jour · French
au goût du jour · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | au goût du jour |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \o ɡu dy ʒuʁ\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
au goût du jour is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \o ɡu dy ʒuʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "À la mode ; selon les goûts, les mœurs du moment.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for au goût du jour, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is au goût du jour, spelled A-U- -G-O-Û-T- -D-U- -J-O-U-R.
Definition
- 1À la mode ; selon les goûts, les mœurs du moment.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how au goût du jour appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
De fait, Sodastream, qui a remis au goût du jour l’eau de Seltz, propose au consommateur de fabriquer lui-même son eau pétillante aromatisée ou non en gazéifiant l’eau du robinet.
On a l’impression que, même au niveau de la recherche, on voudrait, pour sacrifier au goût du jour, enterrer définitivement la période coloniale.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.