jour ouvrier
\ʒu.ʁ‿u.vʁi.je\
The verdict
“jour ouvrier” 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) - Jour qui n’est pas férié et qui peut donc être consacré au travail.
Corpus desk
Index FR-jour-ouvrier · jour ouvrier · French
jour ouvrier · 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 ouvrier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒu.ʁ‿u.vʁi.je\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « jour ouvrier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
jour ouvrier is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʒu.ʁ‿u.vʁi.je\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Jour qui n’est pas férié et qui peut donc être consacré au travail.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for jour ouvrier, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is jour ouvrier, spelled J-O-U-R- -O-U-V-R-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Jour qui n’est pas férié et qui peut donc être consacré au travail.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how jour ouvrier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Toutefois, les jours ouvriers, les calculs de grand-père nous fournissaient une magnifique, quotidienne et hélas ! trop courte occasion d'être ensembles et libres comme deux pigeons.
Synonyms
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.