journey

/\ˈd͡ʒɜː.ni\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#37,398

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

3

similar word pairs

journey is aFrenchnoun. It means: Voyage. Pronounced \ˈd͡ʒɜː.ni\. Often confused with journée and journal.

Key facts for journey
PropertyValue
Headwordjourney
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ˈd͡ʒɜː.ni\
Letters7
Frequency rank#37,398
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for journey is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˈd͡ʒɜː.ni\. Corpus data places it at rank #37,398 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Voyage.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for journey, with forms such as "jjourney", "joruney", and "jounrey". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "journée", "journal", "journées", 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 journey, spelled J-O-U-R-N-E-Y, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Voyage.

Synonyms

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: jjourney,joruney,jounrey,joureny,journeyy,journney,journye,jourrney,juorney,ojurney

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for journey

Misspelling Variants of "journey"

jjourney8joruney7jounrey7joureny7journeyy8journney8journye7jourrney8
Misspelling Variants of "journey"

Frequency rank: #37,398 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "journey"?
"journey" is spelled J-O-U-R-N-E-Y. The IPA pronunciation is \ˈd͡ʒɜː.ni\.
What does "journey" mean?
As a noun, "journey" means: Voyage.
What words are commonly confused with "journey"?
"journey" is commonly confused with "journée", "journal", "journées". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "journey"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "journey" is \ˈd͡ʒɜː.ni\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "journey" come from?
"journey" 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.