hôpital de jour

/^((h muet))\o.pi.tal də ʒuʁ\/ noun

Letters

15 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

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hôpital de jour is aFrenchnoun. It means: Établissement hospitalier qui accueille des patients pour des soins durant une matinée, un après-midi voire une journée complète. Pronounced ^((h muet))\o.pi.tal də ʒuʁ\.

Key facts for hôpital de jour
PropertyValue
Headwordhôpital de jour
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA^((h muet))\o.pi.tal də ʒuʁ\
Letters15
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

hôpital de jour is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for hôpital de jour is 15 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as ^((h muet))\o.pi.tal də 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: "Établissement hospitalier qui accueille des patients pour des soins durant une matinée, un après-midi voire une journée complète.".

No misspelling variants are generated for hôpital de 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 hôpital de jour, spelled H-Ô-P-I-T-A-L- -D-E- -J-O-U-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Établissement hospitalier qui accueille des patients pour des soins durant une matinée, un après-midi voire une journée complète.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "hôpital de jour"?
"hôpital de jour" is spelled H-Ô-P-I-T-A-L- -D-E- -J-O-U-R. The IPA pronunciation is ^((h muet))\o.pi.tal də ʒuʁ\.
What does "hôpital de jour" mean?
As a noun, "hôpital de jour" means: Établissement hospitalier qui accueille des patients pour des soins durant une matinée, un après-midi voire une journée complète.
How do you pronounce "hôpital de jour"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "hôpital de jour" is ^((h muet))\o.pi.tal də ʒuʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "hôpital de jour" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.