ordre du jour

/\ɔʁ.dʁə dy ʒuʁ\/ noun

Letters

13 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

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Confusables

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ordre du jour is aFrenchnoun. It means: Agenda, travail dont on doit s’occuper en séance à la date du jour, dans une assemblée délibérante. Pronounced \ɔʁ.dʁə dy ʒuʁ\.

Key facts for ordre du jour
PropertyValue
Headwordordre du jour
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɔʁ.dʁə dy ʒuʁ\
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

ordre du 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 ordre du jour is 13 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɔʁ.dʁə dy ʒuʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for ordre du 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 ordre du jour, spelled O-R-D-R-E- -D-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
    Agenda, travail dont on doit s’occuper en séance à la date du jour, dans une assemblée délibérante.
  2. 2
    Plan, projet, dessein.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "ordre du jour"?
"ordre du jour" is spelled O-R-D-R-E- -D-U- -J-O-U-R. The IPA pronunciation is \ɔʁ.dʁə dy ʒuʁ\.
What does "ordre du jour" mean?
As a noun, "ordre du jour" means: Agenda, travail dont on doit s’occuper en séance à la date du jour, dans une assemblée délibérante.
How do you pronounce "ordre du jour"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "ordre du jour" is \ɔʁ.dʁə dy ʒuʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "ordre du 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.