bonne bouche
"bonne-bouche" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bonne bouche” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A gourmet titbit.
Corpus desk
Index EN-bonne-bouche · bonne bouche · English
bonne bouche · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bonne bouche |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “bonne bouche” in English
Rare enough to double-check
bonne bouche is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for bonne bouche, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Coined in English from French bonne bouche (“agreeable taste”, literally “good mouth(ful)”). The correct English form is bonne bouche, spelled B-O-N-N-E- -B-O-U-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1A gourmet titbit.
- 2The vagina.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bonne bouche appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
It is a melancholy truth that this same New York, though the most charming, pleasant, polished, and praiseworthy city under the sun, and in a word the bonne bouche of the universe, is most shockingly ill-natured and sarcastic, and wickedly given to all manner of backslidings ; for which we are very sorry, indeed.
Just then the desserts, mere bonnes bouches in foot-wide puddles of pink coulis, were set in front of them.
Etymology
Coined in English from French bonne bouche (“agreeable taste”, literally “good mouth(ful)”).
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.