du jour au lendemain
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20 characters
Language
French
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du jour au lendemain is anFrenchadv. It means: Très promptement, dans un laps de temps très bref. Pronounced \dy ʒu.ʁ‿o lɑ̃.də.mɛ̃\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | du jour au lendemain |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adv |
| IPA | \dy ʒu.ʁ‿o lɑ̃.də.mɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for du jour au lendemain is 20 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dy ʒu.ʁ‿o lɑ̃.də.mɛ̃\. 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: "Très promptement, dans un laps de temps très bref.".
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for du jour au lendemain in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 du jour au lendemain, spelled D-U- -J-O-U-R- -A-U- -L-E-N-D-E-M-A-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Très promptement, dans un laps de temps très bref.
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