journée
\ʒuʁ.ne\
The verdict
“journée” is in the everyday core of French, ranked #411 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #411
- frequency rank, French
- 7
- letters
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Période diurne, du lever au coucher du Soleil.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | journée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒuʁ.ne\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #411 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “journée” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for journée is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, 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 generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for journée, with forms such as "jjournée", "jorunée", and "jounrée". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "jurée", "journey", "journées", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is journée, spelled J-O-U-R-N-É-E.
Definition
- 1Période diurne, du lever au coucher du Soleil.
- 2Période de rotation d’une planète sur elle-même, en particulier de la Terre.
- 3Période 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).
- 4Travail d’un ouvrier pendant un jour.
- 5Nombre d’heures de travail que doit fournir quotidiennement un ouvrier, en accord avec la loi ou avec les règlements professionnels.
- 6Surface correspondant à une journée de travail d’un jardinier, correspondant à environ 450 mètres carrés.
- 7Salaire qu’on donne à un ouvrier pour le payer du travail qu’il a fait pendant un ou plusieurs jours.
- 8Chemin qu’on fait d’un lieu à un autre dans l’espace d’une journée (a donné en anglais journey).
- 9Jour de bataille ou la bataille elle-même.
- 10Jour où se sont passés des événements mémorables.
- 11Division des pièces du théâtre français au Moyen Âge et de l’ancien théâtre espagnol.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: jjournée,jorunée,jounrée,journee,journeé,journnée,jourrnée,jouréne,juornée,ojurnée
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of journée - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “journée”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is J-O-U-R-N-É-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʒuʁ.ne\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “jurée” - see the side-by-side comparison. journée vs jurée
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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.