Bonifacio
/ˌboʊniˈfɑːʃoʊ/
"bonifacio" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Bonifacio” is uncommon English (frequency #62,722 among 31,241 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,722
- frequency rank, English
- 31,241
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A city and commune of Corse-du-Sud department, Corsica, France.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bonifacio |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˌboʊniˈfɑːʃoʊ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #62,722 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Bonifacio” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Bonifacio is uncommon English at frequency #62,722 among 31,241 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˌboʊniˈfɑːʃoʊ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A city and commune of Corse-du-Sud department, Corsica, France.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Bonifacio, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Italian Bonifacio, from Late Latin Bonifātius, named after Boniface II of Tuscany. Doublet of Boniface. The correct English form is Bonifacio, spelled B-O-N-I-F-A-C-I-O.
Definition
- 1A city and commune of Corse-du-Sud department, Corsica, France.
Etymology
From Italian Bonifacio, from Late Latin Bonifātius, named after Boniface II of Tuscany. Doublet of Boniface.
This word in other languages
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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Using “Bonifacio”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is B-O-N-I-F-A-C-I-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.