bonjour
[bɔ̃.ʒuʁ]
The verdict
“bonjour” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #63,620 among 2,459 “B” headwords), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,620
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,459
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hola, buenos días, buenas tardes.
Corpus desk
Index ES-bonjour · bonjour · Spanish
bonjour · rank #63,620 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,620
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,459
- PHOTO-FINISH borrarse
Nearest frequency peer: borrarse (+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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “bonjour”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- bisnietos
bisnietos
36,385 corpus weight
- bocaditos
bocaditos
36,383 corpus weight
- bonjour
bonjour
36,381 corpus weight
- borrarse
borrarse
36,380 corpus weight
- brazas
brazas
36,377 corpus weight
- broadcast
broadcast
36,375 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “bonjour” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bonjour |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | [bɔ̃.ʒuʁ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #63,620 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “bonjour” en español
Rare enough to double-check
bonjour is uncommon Spanish at frequency #63,620 among 2,459 “B” headwords, classed as aninterjection, transcribed [bɔ̃.ʒuʁ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Hola, buenos días, buenas tardes.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for bonjour, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is bonjour, spelled B-O-N-J-O-U-R.
Definition
- 1Hola, buenos días, buenas tardes.
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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