bonne journée
\bɔn ʒuʁ.ne\
The verdict
“bonne journée” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an interjection. 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) - Formule de politesse utilisée lorsqu’on quitte quelqu’un.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bonne-journee · bonne journée · French
bonne journée · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 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 | bonne journée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | \bɔn ʒuʁ.ne\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bonne journée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bonne journée is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as aninterjection, transcribed \bɔn ʒuʁ.ne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Formule de politesse utilisée lorsqu’on quitte quelqu’un.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for bonne journée, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is bonne journée, spelled B-O-N-N-E- -J-O-U-R-N-É-E.
Definition
- 1Formule de politesse utilisée lorsqu’on quitte quelqu’un.
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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.