Jour de la Victoire
\ʒɔʁ də la vik.twaʁ\
The verdict
“Jour de la Victoire” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a proper noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Jour de fête célébré le 9 mai qui commémore la victoire de l’Union soviétique sur l’Allemagne nazie en 1945 ; présent au départ en URSS, son aire d’influence et la Yougoslavie, puis dans certains p...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Jour de la Victoire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʒɔʁ də la vik.twaʁ\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Jour de la Victoire” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Jour de la Victoire is 19 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒɔʁ də la vik.twaʁ\. 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: "Jour de fête célébré le 9 mai qui commémore la victoire de l’Union soviétique sur l’Allemagne nazie en 1945 ; présent au départ en URSS, son aire d’influence et la Yougoslavie, puis dans certains p...".
No misspelling variants are generated for Jour de la Victoire 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 Jour de la Victoire, spelled J-O-U-R- -D-E- -L-A- -V-I-C-T-O-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Jour de fête célébré le 9 mai qui commémore la victoire de l’Union soviétique sur l’Allemagne nazie en 1945 ; présent au départ en URSS, son aire d’influence et la Yougoslavie, puis dans certains pays post-soviétiques (Russie, Biélorussie, etc.), et dans les États non reconnus d’Abkhazie, d’Ossétie du Sud et de Transnistrie.
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- The one correct French spelling is J-O-U-R- -D-E- -L-A- -V-I-C-T-O-I-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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