en plein jour
\ɑ̃ plɛ̃ ʒuʁ\
The verdict
“en plein jour” 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
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - En pleine lumière, sans rien cacher.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | en plein jour |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃ plɛ̃ ʒuʁ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “en plein jour” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for en plein jour is 13 letters long, classified as an adverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃ plɛ̃ ʒuʁ\. 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: "En pleine lumière, sans rien cacher.".
No misspelling variants are generated for en plein jour 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 en plein jour, spelled E-N- -P-L-E-I-N- -J-O-U-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1En pleine lumière, sans rien cacher.
This word in other languages
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- The one correct French spelling is E-N- -P-L-E-I-N- -J-O-U-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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