bon Dieu

/\bɔ̃ djø\/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

bon Dieu is aFrenchnoun. It means: (Précédé du déterminant « le ») Dieu, vu comme un être bon ou comme le Dieu des gens simples. Pronounced \bɔ̃ djø\.

Key facts for bon Dieu
PropertyValue
Headwordbon Dieu
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\bɔ̃ djø\
Letters8
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

bon Dieu is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for bon Dieu is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bɔ̃ djø\. 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: "(Précédé du déterminant « le ») Dieu, vu comme un être bon ou comme le Dieu des gens simples.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for bon Dieu in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 French form is bon Dieu, spelled B-O-N- -D-I-E-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    (Précédé du déterminant « le ») Dieu, vu comme un être bon ou comme le Dieu des gens simples.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "bon Dieu"?
"bon Dieu" is spelled B-O-N- -D-I-E-U. The IPA pronunciation is \bɔ̃ djø\.
What does "bon Dieu" mean?
As a noun, "bon Dieu" means: (Précédé du déterminant « le ») Dieu, vu comme un être bon ou comme le Dieu des gens simples.
How do you pronounce "bon Dieu"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "bon Dieu" is \bɔ̃ djø\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "bon Dieu" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.