belle-de-jour
\bɛl.də.ʒuʁ\
The verdict
“belle-de-jour” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plante de la famille des Convolvulaceae (convolvulacées ; liserons) dont les fleurs ne s’épanouissent que pendant le jour.
Corpus desk
Index FR-belle-de-jour · belle-de-jour · French
belle-de-jour · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" 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 | belle-de-jour |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɛl.də.ʒuʁ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
belle-de-jour is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \bɛl.də.ʒuʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Plante de la famille des Convolvulaceae (convolvulacées ; liserons) dont les fleurs ne s’épanouissent que pendant le jour.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for belle-de-jour, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is belle-de-jour, spelled B-E-L-L-E---D-E---J-O-U-R.
Definition
- 1Plante de la famille des Convolvulaceae (convolvulacées ; liserons) dont les fleurs ne s’épanouissent que pendant le jour.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how belle-de-jour appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le liseron tricolore (Convolvulus tricolor) est souvent appelé belle-de-jour.
Un parterre était planté en guirlande tout alentour, poussant vigoureusement dans le sable : des belles-de-jour, qui dépassaient de leurs jolies têtes jaunes, roses ou rouges, des fouillis de résédas, et qui s’épanouissaient à midi, avec une douce odeur d’oranger.
This word in other languages
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.