bon
[bɔ̃]
The verdict
“bon” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #11,198) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #11,198
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - gut
Corpus desk
Index DE-bon · bon · German
bon · rank #11,198 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,198
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH blauer
Nearest frequency peer: blauer (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „bon“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Bezirke
Bezirke
88,806 corpus weight
- Bismarck
Bismarck
88,805 corpus weight
- blauer
blauer
88,804 corpus weight
- bon
bon
88,803 corpus weight
- brecht
brecht
88,802 corpus weight
- buchstäblich
buchstäblich
88,801 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „bon“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bon |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [bɔ̃] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #11,198 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „bon“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for bon is neighbouring look-alikes ("by", "Br", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced [bɔ̃]. Frequency #11,198 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Gloss: "gut".
Zero misspellings are on record for bon in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "by", "Br", "bu", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is bon, spelled B-O-N.
Definition
- 1gut
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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