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journalier

French, noun/ʒuʁ.na.lje/

journalier is spelled J-O-U-R-N-A-L-I-E-R (10 letters) and appears 2.0 times per million words in written French, the 20,671st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Journalier is a French masculine noun meaning “a journeyman, laborer employed on a daily basis” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Personne qui travaille à la journée”.

What does journalier mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    daily, every day

  2. 2

    uncertain, ephemerous, precarious

noun

  1. 1

    masculinea journeyman, laborer employed on a daily basis

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. Qui se fait chaque jour. 2. Qui est sujet à changer.

noun: 1. Personne qui travaille à la journée. 2. Terme de marine. Le journalier, les vivres frais qui se renouvellent tous les jours, par opposition aux vivres de campagne composés de viandes salées ou en daubes, de légumes, etc. – (https://www.littre.org/definition/journalier)

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of journalier

  • journalière feminine
  • journaliers masculine plural
  • journalières feminine plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce journalier?

  • /ʒuʁ.na.lje/
  • \ʒuʁ.na.lje\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to journalier

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is journalier in French?

journalier appears 2.0 times per million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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