jour à jour
The verdict
“jour à jour” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Jour après jour ; de jour en jour.
Corpus desk
Index FR-jour-a-jour · jour à jour · French
jour à jour · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "J" 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 | jour à jour |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « jour à jour » en français
Rare enough to double-check
jour à jour is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadverb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Jour après jour ; de jour en jour.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for jour à jour, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists 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 jour à jour, spelled J-O-U-R- -À- -J-O-U-R.
Definition
- 1Jour après jour ; de jour en jour.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how jour à jour appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On attendait le choléra. Il arrivait; on suivait sa marche jour à jour; il serait en France au printemps.
Les membres de l’Amicale commençaient, jour à jour, d’oublier cette fable dorée.
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.