bona
/ˈbəʊnə/
"bona" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bona” has 5 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #20,858. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,858
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Good.
Corpus desk
Index EN-bona · bona · English
bona · rank #20,858 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,858
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH bolted
Nearest frequency peer: bolted (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “bona”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Bologna
Bologna
79,145 corpus weight
- bolted
bolted
79,144 corpus weight
- bona
bona
79,143 corpus weight
- bony
bony
79,142 corpus weight
- borrower
borrower
79,141 corpus weight
- bridging
bridging
79,140 corpus weight
What this shows “bona” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
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 | bona |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈbəʊnə/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #20,858 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “bona”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around bona (IPA /ˈbəʊnə/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #20,858 among 4,121 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Good.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for bona, with forms such as "bbona", "bnoa", and "boan". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "boy", "box", "bow", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Sabir bona (“good”), from Italian buono (“good”), from Latin bonus (“good”), from Old Latin duenos (“good”), from Proto-Italic *dwenos (“good”). Doublet of bonus. The correct English form is bona, spelled B-O-N-A.
Definition
- 1Good.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bona appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
SANDY: Oh, get him! The vanity of the man. Well, p'raps not Nelson then. How about reproductions of great masterpieces? JULIAN: A bona idea. Now, let me see...
Will you take a varder at the cartz on the feely-omi in the naf strides: the one with the bona blue ogles polarying the omi-palone with a vogue on and a cod sheitel.
Etymology
Borrowed from Sabir bona (“good”), from Italian buono (“good”), from Latin bonus (“good”), from Old Latin duenos (“good”), from Proto-Italic *dwenos (“good”). Doublet of bonus.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbona
- bnoa
- boan
- bonna
- obna
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bona - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "bona", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).