maman de jour

/\ma.mɑ̃ də ʒuʁ\/ noun

Letters

13 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

maman de jour is aFrenchnoun. It means: Assistante maternelle, nounou. Pronounced \ma.mɑ̃ də ʒuʁ\.

Key facts for maman de jour
PropertyValue
Headwordmaman de jour
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ma.mɑ̃ də ʒuʁ\
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

maman de jour is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for maman de jour is 13 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ma.mɑ̃ də ʒuʁ\. 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: "Assistante maternelle, nounou.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for maman de jour in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 maman de jour, spelled M-A-M-A-N- -D-E- -J-O-U-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Assistante maternelle, nounou.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "maman de jour"?
"maman de jour" is spelled M-A-M-A-N- -D-E- -J-O-U-R. The IPA pronunciation is \ma.mɑ̃ də ʒuʁ\.
What does "maman de jour" mean?
As a noun, "maman de jour" means: Assistante maternelle, nounou.
How do you pronounce "maman de jour"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "maman de jour" is \ma.mɑ̃ də ʒuʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "maman de jour" come from?
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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.