mettre au jour
\mɛ.tʁ‿o ʒuʁ\
The verdict
“mettre au jour” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faire apparaître ce qui était dissimulé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mettre-au-jour · mettre au jour · French
mettre au jour · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" 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 | 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « mettre au jour » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mettre au jour is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \mɛ.tʁ‿o ʒuʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mettre au jour appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il était devenu habituel que les terrassiers missent au jour de gros pavés esseulés au milieu de leur gangue de sable et de molasse. Quelquefois, les ouvriers devaient s'y mettre à quatre pour sortir les pierres, qui pesaient leur comptant.
En mettant ce personnage sur écoutes, les policiers colombiens et américains mirent au jour une affaire de voitures d’occasion dirigée par un de ses associés. Elle faisait un chiffre d'affaires bien trop important par rapport aux voitures qu'elle vendait.
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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.