ordre du jour

\ɔʁ.dʁə dy ʒuʁ\

/\ɔʁ.dʁə dy ʒuʁ\/ noun

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The verdict

“ordre du jour” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
13
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Agenda, travail dont on doit s’occuper en séance à la date du jour, dans une assemblée délibérante.

Corpus desk

Index FR-ordre-du-jour · ordre du jour · French

ordre du jour · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 13 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "O" 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.

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)

Where “ordre du jour” sits in French frequency

ordre du jour falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

ordre du jour is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɔʁ.dʁə dy ʒuʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

No generated misspelling entries exist for ordre du jour in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is ordre du jour, spelled O-R-D-R-E- -D-U- -J-O-U-R.

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.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how ordre du jour appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Et d’une voix ânonnante, brouillant les mots, sautant des phrases, le fourrier lut un pompeux « ordre du jour » du général.
  2. La confusion s’éternisa, au sujet des ordres du jour, une pluie d’ordres du jour, qui allaient de celui de Mège, très violent, à celui de Vignon, simplement sévère. Le ministère n’acceptait que l’ordre du jour pur et simple, et il fut battu : ce fut enfin celui de Vignon que vota la Chambre, à une majorité de vingt-cinq voix.

Synonyms

ODJOdJtractanda

This word in other languages

agenda(English)orden del día(Español)Tagesordnung(Deutsch)pauta(Português)

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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.
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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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list