à bon escient

/[a bɔn‿esjɑ̃]/ phrase

Letters

13 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

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à bon escient is aGermanphrase. It means: den Umständen entsprechend; zu Recht, aus gutem Grund, mit vollem Recht, angemessen Pronounced [a bɔn‿esjɑ̃].

Key facts for à bon escient
PropertyValue
Headwordà bon escient
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[a bɔn‿esjɑ̃]
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

à bon escient is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for à bon escient is 13 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [a bɔn‿esjɑ̃]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "den Umständen entsprechend; zu Recht, aus gutem Grund, mit vollem Recht, angemessen".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for à bon escient in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German 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 German form is à bon escient, spelled À- -B-O-N- -E-S-C-I-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    den Umständen entsprechend; zu Recht, aus gutem Grund, mit vollem Recht, angemessen

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "à bon escient"?
"à bon escient" is spelled À- -B-O-N- -E-S-C-I-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is [a bɔn‿esjɑ̃].
What does "à bon escient" mean?
As a phrase, "à bon escient" means: den Umständen entsprechend; zu Recht, aus gutem Grund, mit vollem Recht, angemessen
How do you pronounce "à bon escient"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "à bon escient" is [a bɔn‿esjɑ̃]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "à bon escient" come from?
"à bon escient" is a German 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.