pause déjeuner
\poz de.ʒœ.ne\
The verdict
“pause déjeuner” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - 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) - Pause que l'on fait, au mitan de ses activités journalières, pour se restaurer et se détendre.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pause déjeuner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \poz de.ʒœ.ne\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pause déjeuner” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for pause déjeuner is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \poz de.ʒœ.ne\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Pause que l'on fait, au mitan de ses activités journalières, pour se restaurer et se détendre.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for pause déjeuner, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is pause déjeuner, spelled P-A-U-S-E- -D-É-J-E-U-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Pause que l'on fait, au mitan de ses activités journalières, pour se restaurer et se détendre.
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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 “pause déjeuner”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-A-U-S-E- -D-É-J-E-U-N-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \poz de.ʒœ.ne\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.