bonjour

/[bɔ̃.ʒuʁ]/ intj

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#53,552

in German word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

bonjour is anGermanintj. It means: guten Morgen, guten Tag Pronounced [bɔ̃.ʒuʁ].

Key facts for bonjour
PropertyValue
Headwordbonjour
LanguageGerman
Part of speechIntj
IPA[bɔ̃.ʒuʁ]
Letters7
Frequency rank#53,552
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of bonjour in German word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for bonjour is 7 letters long, classified as anintj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [bɔ̃.ʒuʁ]. Corpus data places it at rank #53,552 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "guten Morgen, guten Tag".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for bonjour 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 bonjour, spelled B-O-N-J-O-U-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    guten Morgen, guten Tag

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #53,552 in German

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "bonjour"?
"bonjour" is spelled B-O-N-J-O-U-R. The IPA pronunciation is [bɔ̃.ʒuʁ].
What does "bonjour" mean?
As an intj, "bonjour" means: guten Morgen, guten Tag
How do you pronounce "bonjour"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "bonjour" is [bɔ̃.ʒuʁ]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "bonjour" come from?
"bonjour" 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.