Which to use
“jou” is a pronoun and “jour” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #38,878
- “jou” frequency rank
- #141
- “jour” frequency rank
- 39019
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | jou | jour |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Pronom personnel objet de la deuxième personne du singulier : te. | 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: jou vs jour
Shared letters muted; letters that set jou and jour apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.
Part-of-speech tell for jou / jour
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: jou is apronoun and jouranoun. On the page they differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “jou” sits inside “jour”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 39019, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
jou is recorded at frequency rank #38,878, classified as apron. 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 39019, this pair ranks #251,085 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of jou vs jour
Shared letters: jou. Private to "jou": -. Private to "jour": r.
"jou" · 3 letters · shape CVV · "jour" · 4 letters · shape CVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- jour ← jjour · joru · jourr · juor · ojur
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "jou" and "jour" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "jou" or "jour"?
After this comparison
You've compared "jou" and "jour". Here's where to go from here.
- Full dictionary entry for "jou" 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 #251,085 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "jou" and "jour" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "jor vs jou". 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
Confusion rank #251,085 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.