Bologne
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#15,576
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
Bologne is aFrenchname. It means: Ville de la région d’Émilie-Romagne en Italie, siège de la plus ancienne université du monde occidental puisqu’elle fut fondée en 1088. Pronounced \bɔ.lɔɲ\. Often confused with boone and borgne.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bologne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Name |
| IPA | \bɔ.lɔɲ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #15,576 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Bologne is 7 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bɔ.lɔɲ\. Corpus data places it at rank #15,576 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Bologne, with forms such as "bbologne", "bloogne", and "bolgone". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "boone", "borgne", "boogie", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 French form is Bologne, spelled B-O-L-O-G-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ville de la région d’Émilie-Romagne en Italie, siège de la plus ancienne université du monde occidental puisqu’elle fut fondée en 1088.
- 2Province autour de cette ville.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbologne,bloogne,bolgone,bollogne,bologen,bologgne,bolognne,bolonge,boolgne,oblogne
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Bologne
Misspelling Variants of "Bologne"
Frequency rank: #15,576 in French
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