jour de Noël
\ʒuʁ də no.ɛl\
The verdict
“jour de Noël” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Journée du 25 décembre.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jour de Noël |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒuʁ də no.ɛl\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “jour de Noël” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for jour de Noël is 12 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒuʁ də no.ɛl\. 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: "Journée du 25 décembre.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for jour de Noël in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is jour de Noël, spelled J-O-U-R- -D-E- -N-O-Ë-L.
Definition
- 1Journée du 25 décembre.
This word in other languages
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.
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Using “jour de Noël”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is J-O-U-R- -D-E- -N-O-Ë-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʒuʁ də no.ɛl\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.