bonne
[bɔn]
The verdict
“bonne” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #48,018) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #48,018
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dienstmädchen; Hausgehilfin; Hausmädchen
Corpus desk
Index DE-bonne · bonne · German
bonne · rank #48,018 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,018
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH boiler
Nearest frequency peer: boiler (-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 „bonne“
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What this shows Balken platzieren „bonne“ 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 | bonne |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [bɔn] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #48,018 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „bonne“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for bonne is neighbouring look-alikes ("böse", "Bote", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [bɔn]. Frequency #48,018 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Gloss: "Dienstmädchen; Hausgehilfin; Hausmädchen".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for bonne, with forms such as "bbonne", "bnone", and "bonen". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "böse", "Bote", "bono", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 bonne, spelled B-O-N-N-E.
Definition
- 1Dienstmädchen; Hausgehilfin; Hausmädchen
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbonne
- bnone
- bonen
- obnne
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bonne - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).