jorvsjourWhat's the difference?

Which to use

“jor” and “jour” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#49,747
“jor” frequency rank
#141
“jour” frequency rank
49888
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature jor jour
Definition Jour. Période de vingt-quatre heures, commençant généralement à minuit ; en certains lieux et à certaines époques, le jour commençait plutôt avec le lever ou le coucher du soleil.

Letter map: jor vs jour

Shared letters muted; letters that set jor and jour apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

3 ch
jor
4 ch
jour

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

jor and jour are indexed as a confusable French pair. We have no recorded pronunciation or part of speech for both members, so the spelling overlap is what we can show you: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 49888, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

jor is recorded at frequency rank #49,747, classified as anoun. jour is at rank #141, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ʒuʁ\.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 49888, this pair ranks #167,096 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of jor vs jour

Shared letters: jor. Private to "jor": -. Private to "jour": u.

"jor" · 3 letters · shape CVC  ·  "jour" · 4 letters · shape CVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • jourjjour · joru · jourr · juor · ojur

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "jor" and "jour" be used interchangeably?
No. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
Which is more common, "jor" or "jour"?
"jour" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #141 in our French list, against #49,747 for "jor". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

You've compared "jor" and "jour". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "jor" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "jour" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #167,096 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "jor" and "jour" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "jem vs jor". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list