toujours

/\tu.ʒuʁ\/ adv

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#106

in French word usage

Misspellings

11

tracked variants

Confusables

2

similar word pairs

toujours is anFrenchadv. It means: En tout temps, continuellement, sans cesse, sans relâche, sans fin. Pronounced \tu.ʒuʁ\. It ranks #106 in French word frequency. Often confused with toutous and tjrs.

Key facts for toujours
PropertyValue
Headwordtoujours
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdv
IPA\tu.ʒuʁ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#106
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of toujours in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for toujours is 8 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tu.ʒuʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #106 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for toujours, with forms such as "otujours", "tojuours", and "toujjours". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "toutous", "tjrs", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 toujours, spelled T-O-U-J-O-U-R-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    En tout temps, continuellement, sans cesse, sans relâche, sans fin.
  2. 2
    Le plus souvent ; habituellement ; ordinairement.
  3. 3
    Comme par le passé.
  4. 4
    Sans exception ; en toute rencontre ; en toute occasion.
  5. 5
    En attendant, cependant, néanmoins, du moins, en tout cas.
  6. 6
    De toute façon.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: otujours,tojuours,toujjours,toujorus,toujourrs,toujourss,toujousr,toujuors,touojurs,ttoujours,tuojours

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for toujours

Misspelling Variants of "toujours"

otujours8tojuours8toujjours9toujorus8toujourrs9toujourss9toujousr8toujuors8
Misspelling Variants of "toujours"

Frequency rank: #106 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "toujours"?
"toujours" is spelled T-O-U-J-O-U-R-S. The IPA pronunciation is \tu.ʒuʁ\.
What does "toujours" mean?
As an adv, "toujours" means: En tout temps, continuellement, sans cesse, sans relâche, sans fin.
What words are commonly confused with "toujours"?
"toujours" is commonly confused with "toutous", "tjrs". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "toujours"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "toujours" is \tu.ʒuʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "toujours" come from?
"toujours" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.