voir le jour
\vwaʁ lə ʒuʁ\
The verdict
“voir le jour” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Apercevoir de la lumière.
Corpus desk
Index FR-voir-le-jour · voir le jour · French
voir le jour · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "V" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | voir le jour |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \vwaʁ lə ʒuʁ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « voir le jour » en français
Rare enough to double-check
voir le jour is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \vwaʁ lə ʒuʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for voir le jour in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. 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 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 voir le jour, spelled V-O-I-R- -L-E- -J-O-U-R.
Definition
- 1Apercevoir de la lumière.
- 2Naître.
- 3Exister ou apparaître pour la première fois.
- 4Apparaître, sortir du lieu où une chose était cachée, enfouie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how voir le jour appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Voir le jour au travers de quelque chose.
Dans le flanc maternel, leurs échines serviles Avant de voir le jour apprennent à plier.
Synonyms
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.