mettre au jour
\mɛ.tʁ‿o ʒuʁ\
The verdict
“mettre au jour” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Faire apparaître ce qui était dissimulé.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mettre au jour |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mɛ.tʁ‿o ʒuʁ\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mettre au jour” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for mettre au jour is 14 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɛ.tʁ‿o ʒuʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
mettre au jour doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is mettre au jour, spelled M-E-T-T-R-E- -A-U- -J-O-U-R.
Definition
- 1Faire apparaître ce qui était dissimulé.
- 2Publier.
- 3Enfanter, donner la vie.
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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 “mettre au jour”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is M-E-T-T-R-E- -A-U- -J-O-U-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \mɛ.tʁ‿o ʒuʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- 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.