lumière du jour
\ly.mjɛʁ dy ʒu.ʁ\
The verdict
“lumière du jour” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Lumière naturelle perçue dans la journée.
| 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) |
Where “lumière du jour” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for lumière du jour is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ly.mjɛʁ dy ʒu.ʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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.
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.
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Using “lumière du jour”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is L-U-M-I-È-R-E- -D-U- -J-O-U-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ly.mjɛʁ dy ʒu.ʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.