bonne journée
\bɔn ʒuʁ.ne\
The verdict
“bonne journée” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an interjection - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Formule de politesse utilisée lorsqu’on quitte quelqu’un.
| 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) |
Where “bonne journée” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for bonne journée is 13 letters long, classified as an interjection, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bɔn ʒuʁ.ne\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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.
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Using “bonne journée”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is B-O-N-N-E- -J-O-U-R-N-É-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \bɔn ʒuʁ.ne\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.