journée

/\ʒuʁ.ne\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#411

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

5

similar word pairs

journée is aFrenchnoun. It means: Période diurne, du lever au coucher du Soleil. Pronounced \ʒuʁ.ne\. It ranks #411 in French word frequency. Often confused with jurée and journey.

Key facts for journée
PropertyValue
Headwordjournée
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʒuʁ.ne\
Letters7
Frequency rank#411
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of journée in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for journée is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒuʁ.ne\. Corpus data places it at rank #411 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for journée, with forms such as "jjournée", "jorunée", and "jounrée". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "jurée", "journey", "journées", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 journée, spelled J-O-U-R-N-É-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Période diurne, du lever au coucher du Soleil.
  2. 2
    Période de rotation d’une planète sur elle-même, en particulier de la Terre.
  3. 3
    Période de 24 heures, en particulier la période qui va de minuit à minuit (historiquement, la journée a aussi été définie dans certaines régions comme débutant avec le coucher du Soleil).
  4. 4
    Travail d’un ouvrier pendant un jour.
  5. 5
    Nombre d’heures de travail que doit fournir quotidiennement un ouvrier, en accord avec la loi ou avec les règlements professionnels.
  6. 6
    Surface correspondant à une journée de travail d’un jardinier, correspondant à environ 450 mètres carrés.
  7. 7
    Salaire qu’on donne à un ouvrier pour le payer du travail qu’il a fait pendant un ou plusieurs jours.
  8. 8
    Chemin qu’on fait d’un lieu à un autre dans l’espace d’une journée (a donné en anglais journey).
  9. 9
    Jour de bataille ou la bataille elle-même.
  10. 10
    Jour où se sont passés des événements mémorables.
  11. 11
    Division des pièces du théâtre français au Moyen Âge et de l’ancien théâtre espagnol.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: jjournée,jorunée,jounrée,journee,journeé,journnée,jourrnée,jouréne,juornée,ojurnée

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for journée

Misspelling Variants of "journée"

jjournée8jorunée7jounrée7journee7journeé7journnée8jourrnée8jouréne7
Misspelling Variants of "journée"

Frequency rank: #411 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "journée"?
"journée" is spelled J-O-U-R-N-É-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʒuʁ.ne\.
What does "journée" mean?
As a noun, "journée" means: Période diurne, du lever au coucher du Soleil.
What words are commonly confused with "journée"?
"journée" is commonly confused with "jurée", "journey", "journées". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "journée"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "journée" is \ʒuʁ.ne\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "journée" come from?
"journée" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.