Bologna
\bo.ˈlɔ.nja\
The verdict
“Bologna” is uncommon French (frequency #63,564 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,564
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bologne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bologna · Bologna · French
Bologna · rank #63,564 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,564
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bolivienne
Nearest frequency peer: bolivienne (-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 « Bologna »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- BMO
BMO
36,441 corpus weight
- BNB
BNB
36,440 corpus weight
- bolivienne
bolivienne
36,438 corpus weight
- Bologna
Bologna
36,437 corpus weight
- bonsaï
bonsaï
36,435 corpus weight
- Bontemps
Bontemps
36,434 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Bologna » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bologna |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \bo.ˈlɔ.nja\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #63,564 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Bologna » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Bologna is uncommon French at frequency #63,564 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \bo.ˈlɔ.nja\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Bologne.".
Bologna doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Bologna, spelled B-O-L-O-G-N-A.
Definition
- 1Bologne.
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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