mettre au jour

/\mɛ.tʁ‿o ʒuʁ\/ verb

Letters

14 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

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tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

mettre au jour is aFrenchverb. It means: Faire apparaître ce qui était dissimulé. Pronounced \mɛ.tʁ‿o ʒuʁ\.

Key facts for mettre au jour
PropertyValue
Headwordmettre au jour
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\mɛ.tʁ‿o ʒuʁ\
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for mettre au jour is 14 letters long, classified as averb, 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.

No misspelling variants are generated for mettre au jour in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.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 mettre au jour, spelled M-E-T-T-R-E- -A-U- -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
    Faire apparaître ce qui était dissimulé.
  2. 2
    Publier.
  3. 3
    Enfanter, donner la vie.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "mettre au jour"?
"mettre au jour" is spelled M-E-T-T-R-E- -A-U- -J-O-U-R. The IPA pronunciation is \mɛ.tʁ‿o ʒuʁ\.
What does "mettre au jour" mean?
As a verb, "mettre au jour" means: Faire apparaître ce qui était dissimulé.
How do you pronounce "mettre au jour"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "mettre au jour" is \mɛ.tʁ‿o ʒuʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "mettre au jour" come from?
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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.