plat du jour

/\pla dy ʒuʁ\/ noun

Letters

12 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

plat du jour is aFrenchnoun. It means: Plat préparé spécialement, dans certains restaurants, pour le jour même, et qui change donc tous les jours. Pronounced \pla dy ʒuʁ\.

Key facts for plat du jour
PropertyValue
Headwordplat du jour
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pla dy ʒuʁ\
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

plat 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 plat du jour is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pla dy ʒuʁ\. 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: "Plat préparé spécialement, dans certains restaurants, pour le jour même, et qui change donc tous les jours.".

No misspelling variants are generated for plat 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 plat du jour, spelled P-L-A-T- -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
    Plat préparé spécialement, dans certains restaurants, pour le jour même, et qui change donc tous les jours.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "plat du jour"?
"plat du jour" is spelled P-L-A-T- -D-U- -J-O-U-R. The IPA pronunciation is \pla dy ʒuʁ\.
What does "plat du jour" mean?
As a noun, "plat du jour" means: Plat préparé spécialement, dans certains restaurants, pour le jour même, et qui change donc tous les jours.
How do you pronounce "plat du jour"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "plat du jour" is \pla dy ʒuʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "plat 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.