un de ces jours
\œ̃ də sɛ ʒuʁ\
The verdict
“un de ces jours” 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
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Dans un de ces prochains jours.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | un de ces jours |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \œ̃ də sɛ ʒuʁ\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “un de ces jours” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for un de ces jours is 15 letters long, classified as an adverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \œ̃ də sɛ 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: "Dans un de ces prochains jours.".
No misspelling variants are generated for un de ces jours 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 un de ces jours, spelled U-N- -D-E- -C-E-S- -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
- 1Dans un de ces prochains jours.
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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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- The one correct French spelling is U-N- -D-E- -C-E-S- -J-O-U-R-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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