voir le jour

/\vwaʁ lə ʒuʁ\/ verb

Letters

12 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

voir le jour is aFrenchverb. It means: Apercevoir de la lumière. Pronounced \vwaʁ lə ʒuʁ\.

Key facts for voir le jour
PropertyValue
Headwordvoir le jour
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\vwaʁ lə ʒuʁ\
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

voir le jour is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for voir le jour is 12 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \vwaʁ lə ʒuʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for voir le jour in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 voir le jour, spelled V-O-I-R- -L-E- -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
    Apercevoir de la lumière.
  2. 2
    Naître.
  3. 3
    Exister ou apparaître pour la première fois.
  4. 4
    Apparaître, sortir du lieu où une chose était cachée, enfouie.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "voir le jour"?
"voir le jour" is spelled V-O-I-R- -L-E- -J-O-U-R. The IPA pronunciation is \vwaʁ lə ʒuʁ\.
What does "voir le jour" mean?
As a verb, "voir le jour" means: Apercevoir de la lumière.
How do you pronounce "voir le jour"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "voir le jour" is \vwaʁ lə ʒuʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "voir le jour" come from?
"voir le jour" 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.