jour pour jour
\ʒuʁ puʁ ʒuʁ\
The verdict
“jour pour jour” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adverb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Au même jour du mois ou à la même date de l’année.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jour pour jour |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \ʒuʁ puʁ ʒuʁ\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “jour pour jour” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for jour pour jour is 14 letters long, classified as an adverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒuʁ puʁ ʒuʁ\. 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: "Au même jour du mois ou à la même date de l’année.".
No misspelling variants are generated for jour pour jour 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 pour jour, spelled J-O-U-R- -P-O-U-R- -J-O-U-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Au même jour du mois ou à la même date de l’année.
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 pour jour”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is J-O-U-R- -P-O-U-R- -J-O-U-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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