jour de paye
\ʒuʁ də pɛj\
The verdict
“jour de paye” 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 de salaire.
| 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) |
Where “jour de paye” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for jour de paye is 12 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒuʁ də pɛj\. 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 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.
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 paye”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is J-O-U-R- -D-E- -P-A-Y-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʒuʁ də pɛj\ (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.