un beau jour
\œ̃ bo ʒuʁ\
The verdict
“un beau jour” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adverb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - À une date indéterminée dans le passé ou le futur ; un certain jour.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | un beau jour |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \œ̃ bo ʒuʁ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “un beau jour” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for un beau jour is 12 letters long, classified as an adverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \œ̃ bo 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: "À une date indéterminée dans le passé ou le futur ; un certain jour.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for un beau jour, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is un beau jour, spelled U-N- -B-E-A-U- -J-O-U-R.
Definition
- 1À une date indéterminée dans le passé ou le futur ; un certain jour.
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 “un beau jour”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is U-N- -B-E-A-U- -J-O-U-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \œ̃ bo ʒuʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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.