bon sens
Letters
8 characters
Language
French
word origin
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bon sens is aFrenchnoun. It means: Capacité de discerner clairement ce qui est évident, sans en être distrait par d’autres considérations. Pronounced \bɔ̃ sɑ̃s\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bon sens |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɔ̃ sɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for bon sens is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bɔ̃ sɑ̃s\. 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: "Capacité de discerner clairement ce qui est évident, sans en être distrait par d’autres considérations.".
No misspelling variants are generated for bon sens in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.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 sens, spelled B-O-N- -S-E-N-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Capacité de discerner clairement ce qui est évident, sans en être distrait par d’autres considérations.
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