bonar
"bonar" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bonar” is uncommon English (frequency #68,051 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,051
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative spelling of bona (“good”).
Corpus desk
Index EN-bonar · bonar · English
bonar · rank #68,051 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,051
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH blotch
Nearest frequency peer: blotch (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “bonar”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- bitsy
bitsy
31,954 corpus weight
- Blakeney
Blakeney
31,952 corpus weight
- blotch
blotch
31,951 corpus weight
- bonar
bonar
31,950 corpus weight
- bonehead
bonehead
31,949 corpus weight
- Booz
Booz
31,946 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “bonar” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bonar |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #68,051 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “bonar” in English
Rare enough to double-check
bonar is uncommon English at frequency #68,051 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative spelling of bona (“good”).".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for bonar, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is bonar, spelled B-O-N-A-R.
Definition
- 1Alternative spelling of bona (“good”).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bonar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
If we has a good pitch we never tell one another, for business is business. If they know we've a 'bonar' pitch, they'll oppose, which makes it bad.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).