journal de bord
\ʒuʁ.nal də bɔʁ\
The verdict
“journal de bord” 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
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Recueil des événements consignés par les officiers d’un navire.
| 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) |
Where “journal de bord” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for journal de bord is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒuʁ.nal də bɔʁ\. 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.
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.
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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.
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Using “journal de bord”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is J-O-U-R-N-A-L- -D-E- -B-O-R-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʒuʁ.nal də bɔʁ\ (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.