bobonne
\bɔ.bɔn\
The verdict
“bobonne” is uncommon French (frequency #86,472 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,472
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Grand-mère, femme âgée (mémère).
Corpus desk
Index FR-bobonne · bobonne · French
bobonne · rank #86,472 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,472
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH blâmez
Nearest frequency peer: blâmez (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « bobonne »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- biplan
biplan
13,533 corpus weight
- blancos
blancos
13,532 corpus weight
- blaugranas
blaugranas
13,531 corpus weight
- blâmez
blâmez
13,530 corpus weight
- bobonne
bobonne
13,529 corpus weight
- boostée
boostée
13,526 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bobonne » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bobonne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɔ.bɔn\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #86,472 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bobonne » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bobonne is uncommon French at frequency #86,472 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bɔ.bɔn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for bobonne, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is bobonne, spelled B-O-B-O-N-N-E.
Definition
- 1Grand-mère, femme âgée (mémère).
- 2Bonne, servante, bonne d’enfants.
- 3Nom donné par un mari à son épouse lorsqu’il s’adresse à elle.
- 4Femme au foyer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bobonne appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
… elle enlevait son chapeau, le remplaçait par un bonnet de bonne apporté sous son mantelet, dépliait un tablier blanc dissimulé de la même façon, le nouait autour de sa taille, et portant dans une serviette son chapeau de ville et le vêtement qui tout à l'heure lui couvrait les épaules, elle s’en allait trottinant, hardie, les hanches découvertes, petite…
Il courut au-devant de la bobonne qui lançait des bouffées pareilles aux jets de fumée d’un bateau à vapeur. Dix minutes après il rentrait. - Elle prétend que dans son pays toutes les nourrices sèches fument la pipe.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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