bon courage
/bɔ̃.ku.ʁaʒ/
The verdict
“bon courage” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — ¡Buena suerte!
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bon courage |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | /bɔ̃.ku.ʁaʒ/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “bon courage” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for bon courage is 11 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /bɔ̃.ku.ʁaʒ/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "¡Buena suerte!".
No misspelling variants are generated for bon courage in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is bon courage, spelled B-O-N- -C-O-U-R-A-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1¡Buena suerte!
Synonyms
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.
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Using “bon courage”
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is B-O-N- -C-O-U-R-A-G-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /bɔ̃.ku.ʁaʒ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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