jour de la semaine

/\ʒuʁ də la sə.mɛn\/ noun

Letters

18 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

jour de la semaine is aFrenchnoun. It means: Un des sept jours désignés par un nom identifiant leur place dans la semaine, associés aux dates dans l’ordre suivant : lundi, mardi, mercredi, jeudi, vendredi, samedi et dimanche. ISO 8601 confirm... Pronounced \ʒuʁ də la sə.mɛn\.

Key facts for jour de la semaine
PropertyValue
Headwordjour de la semaine
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʒuʁ də la sə.mɛn\
Letters18
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for jour de la semaine is 18 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒuʁ də la sə.mɛn\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for jour de la semaine in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 jour de la semaine, spelled J-O-U-R- -D-E- -L-A- -S-E-M-A-I-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Un des sept jours désignés par un nom identifiant leur place dans la semaine, associés aux dates dans l’ordre suivant : lundi, mardi, mercredi, jeudi, vendredi, samedi et dimanche. ISO 8601 confirme que le 1ᵉʳ janvier 2000 est samedi.
  2. 2
    Jour autre que samedi ou dimanche par opposition au weekend.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "jour de la semaine"?
"jour de la semaine" is spelled J-O-U-R- -D-E- -L-A- -S-E-M-A-I-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʒuʁ də la sə.mɛn\.
What does "jour de la semaine" mean?
As a noun, "jour de la semaine" means: Un des sept jours désignés par un nom identifiant leur place dans la semaine, associés aux dates dans l’ordre suivant : lundi, mardi, mercredi, jeudi, vendredi, samedi et dimanche. ISO 8601 confirm...
How do you pronounce "jour de la semaine"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "jour de la semaine" is \ʒuʁ də la sə.mɛn\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "jour de la semaine" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.