Which to use
“jour” and “jours” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #141
- “jour” frequency rank
- #183
- “jours” frequency rank
- 324
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | jour | jours |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | 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. | Pluriel de jour. |
Same sound, different letters: jour vs jours
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 4 letters.
Same sound, different spelling - jour / jours
This is the hard kind. jour and jours are pronounced identically (\ʒuʁ\) and both work as anoun. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “jour” sits inside “jours”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 324, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
jour is recorded at frequency rank #141, classified as anoun, pronounced \ʒuʁ\. jours is at rank #183, 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 324, this pair ranks #439,812 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of jour vs jours
Shared letters: joru. Private to "jour": -. Private to "jours": s.
"jour" · 4 letters · shape CVVC · "jours" · 5 letters · shape CVVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "jour" and "jours" be used interchangeably?
Which is more common, "jour" or "jours"?
Useful next steps
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "jour" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "jours" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #439,812 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "jour" and "jours" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "jor vs jours". 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 #439,812 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.