il y a beaux jours
\il j‿a bo ʒuʁ\
The verdict
“il y a beaux jours” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a preposition. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Depuis longtemps.
Corpus desk
Index FR-il-y-a-beaux-jours · il y a beaux jours · French
il y a beaux jours · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 18 letters
- VOW-8 8 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "I" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | il y a beaux jours |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Preposition |
| IPA | \il j‿a bo ʒuʁ\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
il y a beaux jours is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as apreposition, transcribed \il j‿a bo ʒuʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Depuis longtemps.".
il y a beaux jours doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is il y a beaux jours, spelled I-L- -Y- -A- -B-E-A-U-X- -J-O-U-R-S.
Definition
- 1Depuis longtemps.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how il y a beaux jours appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si une guerre ouverte n’était pas déclarée entre eux, il y avait beaux jours qu’ils savaient à quoi s’en tenir les uns et les autres.
Synonyms
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.