bon sens

/\bɔ̃ sɑ̃s\/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

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\.

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

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

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

  1. 1
    Capacité de discerner clairement ce qui est évident, sans en être distrait par d’autres considérations.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "bon sens"?
"bon sens" is spelled B-O-N- -S-E-N-S. The IPA pronunciation is \bɔ̃ sɑ̃s\.
What does "bon sens" mean?
As a noun, "bon sens" means: Capacité de discerner clairement ce qui est évident, sans en être distrait par d’autres considérations.
How do you pronounce "bon sens"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "bon sens" is \bɔ̃ sɑ̃s\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "bon sens" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.