hôpital de jour
^((h muet))\o.pi.tal də ʒuʁ\
The verdict
“hôpital de jour” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Établissement hospitalier qui accueille des patients pour des soins durant une matinée, un après-midi voire une journée complète.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hôpital de jour |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h muet))\o.pi.tal də ʒuʁ\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “hôpital de jour” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
hôpital de jour is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed ^((h muet))\o.pi.tal də ʒuʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Établissement hospitalier qui accueille des patients pour des soins durant une matinée, un après-midi voire une journée complète.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for hôpital de jour, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is hôpital de jour, spelled H-Ô-P-I-T-A-L- -D-E- -J-O-U-R.
Definition
- 1Établissement hospitalier qui accueille des patients pour des soins durant une matinée, un après-midi voire une journée complète.
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 “hôpital de jour”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is H-Ô-P-I-T-A-L- -D-E- -J-O-U-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as ^((h muet))\o.pi.tal də ʒuʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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