contrejour
French, noun\kɔ̃.tʁə.ʒuʁ\
contrejour is spelled C-O-N-T-R-E-J-O-U-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 28 million words in written French, the 170,198th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Contrejour is a French masculine noun meaning “post-1990 spelling of contre-jour” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Variante orthographique de contre-jour”.
What does contrejour mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinepost-1990 spelling of contre-jour
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Variante orthographique de contre-jour.
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.
Forms of contrejour
- contrejours plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce contrejour?
- \kɔ̃.tʁə.ʒuʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to contrejour
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is contrejour in French?
contrejour appears about once in every 28 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).