bon
[ˈbõn]
The verdict
“bon” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #13,196) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #13,196
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,459
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de bonu (buen), usada cuando antecede a nombres masculinos.
Corpus desk
Index ES-bon · bon · Spanish
bon · rank #13,196 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,196
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,459
- PHOTO-FINISH boliche
Nearest frequency peer: boliche (-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.
Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “bon”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- Bernal
Bernal
86,808 corpus weight
- Blake
Blake
86,807 corpus weight
- boliche
boliche
86,806 corpus weight
- bon
bon
86,805 corpus weight
- brad
brad
86,804 corpus weight
- cadera
cadera
86,803 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “bon” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.
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 | bon |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈbõn] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #13,196 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “bon”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for bon is neighbouring look-alikes ("by", "bu", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced [ˈbõn]. Frequency #13,196 among 2,459 “B” headwords. Gloss: "Variante de bonu (buen), usada cuando antecede a nombres masculinos.".
bon has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "by", "bu", "bus", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists 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 Spanish form is bon, spelled B-O-N.
Definition
- 1Variante de bonu (buen), usada cuando antecede a nombres masculinos.
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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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