lumière du jour
\ly.mjɛʁ dy ʒu.ʁ\
The verdict
“lumière du jour” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lumière naturelle perçue dans la journée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lumiere-du-jour · lumière du jour · French
lumière du jour · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "L" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lumière du jour |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ly.mjɛʁ dy ʒu.ʁ\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lumière du jour » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lumière du jour is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ly.mjɛʁ dy ʒu.ʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Lumière naturelle perçue dans la journée.".
No misspelling variants are generated for lumière du jour in our index, 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.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is lumière du jour, spelled L-U-M-I-È-R-E- -D-U- -J-O-U-R.
Definition
- 1Lumière naturelle perçue dans la journée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lumière du jour appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’appellation lumière blanche est purement conventionnelle et désigne la lumière du jour dans laquelle nous baignons en permanence mais que nous ne voyons pas.
Les vitres pare-balles occultaient toute la lumière du jour, et les spots de la Mercedes éclairèrent l’ovale parfait du visage de Noriko.
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.