b'jour
French, interjection/b.ʒuʁ/
b'jour is spelled B-J-O-U-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 35 million words in written French, the 190,022nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). B'jour is a French interjection meaning “syncopic form of bonjour” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Variante de bonjour”.
What does b'jour mean in English?
interjection
- 1
syncopic form of bonjour
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
interjection: 1. Variante de bonjour.
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.
How do you pronounce b'jour?
- /b.ʒuʁ/
- \bʒuʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is b'jour in French?
b'jour appears about once in every 35 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).