journal de bord
\ʒuʁ.nal də bɔʁ\
The verdict
“journal de bord” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Recueil des événements consignés par les officiers d’un navire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-journal-de-bord · journal de bord · French
journal de bord · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-5 5 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 | journal de bord |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒuʁ.nal də bɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
journal de bord is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʒuʁ.nal də bɔʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
journal de bord has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is journal de bord, spelled J-O-U-R-N-A-L- -D-E- -B-O-R-D.
Definition
- 1Recueil des événements consignés par les officiers d’un navire.
- 2Cahier dans lequel on note les informations utiles relatives à un objectif précis.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how journal de bord appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce cahier, je le compris, était un de ces registres appelés « journaux de bord », que les marins tiennent chaque jour ; je ne m’en étonnai même pas comme d’une chose nouvelle, bien que n’en ayant encore jamais eu entre les mains.
« Pourquoi certains meurent en trois jours et d’autres s’en sortent ? » : journal de bord d’un médecin de campagne victime du coronavirus.
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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.