jour de paye
\ʒuʁ də pɛj\
The verdict
“jour de paye” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Journée de salaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-jour-de-paye · jour de paye · French
jour de paye · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 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 de paye |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒuʁ də pɛj\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « jour de paye » en français
Rare enough to double-check
jour de paye is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʒuʁ də pɛj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for jour de paye in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is jour de paye, spelled J-O-U-R- -D-E- -P-A-Y-E.
Definition
- 1Journée de salaire.
- 2Jour où l’on touche son salaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how jour de paye appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vous savez bien qu’il ne rentrera pas, puisque c’est le jour de paye.
Le choix presque général du jour de paye le samedi est encore pour l’ouvrier une cause d’inconduite car s’il possède un peu d’argent il cède inévitablement aux occasions de plaisir que lui présente le dimanche.
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.