jour blanc
\ʒuʁ blɑ̃\
The verdict
“jour blanc” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Phénomène météorologique où l’on ne peut distinguer le ciel (nuageux) du sol (enneigé).
Corpus desk
Index FR-jour-blanc · jour blanc · French
jour blanc · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 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 blanc |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒuʁ blɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
jour blanc is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʒuʁ blɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for jour blanc, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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 jour blanc, spelled J-O-U-R- -B-L-A-N-C.
Definition
- 1Phénomène météorologique où l’on ne peut distinguer le ciel (nuageux) du sol (enneigé).
- 2Le 13, 14 et 15 des mois du calendrier hégirien, où la lune est pleine, jours dans lesquels un jeûne est surérogatoire dans l’islam.
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.