de jour comme de nuit
\də juʁ kɔm də nɥi\
The verdict
“de jour comme de nuit” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adverb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 21
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Constamment, aussi bien durant la journée que pendant la nuit.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | de jour comme de nuit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \də juʁ kɔm də nɥi\ |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “de jour comme de nuit” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for de jour comme de nuit is 21 letters long, classified as an adverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \də juʁ kɔm də nɥi\. 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: "Constamment, aussi bien durant la journée que pendant la nuit.".
No misspelling variants are generated for de jour comme de nuit in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is de jour comme de nuit, spelled D-E- -J-O-U-R- -C-O-M-M-E- -D-E- -N-U-I-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Constamment, aussi bien durant la journée que pendant la nuit.
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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- The one correct French spelling is D-E- -J-O-U-R- -C-O-M-M-E- -D-E- -N-U-I-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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