bon vent

/\bɔ̃ vɑ̃\/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

bon vent is aFrenchnoun. It means: Vent qui porte directement le navire vers le point où l’on veut aller. Pronounced \bɔ̃ vɑ̃\.

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

Frequency rank visualization

bon vent 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 vent is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bɔ̃ vɑ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for bon vent 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 vent, spelled B-O-N- -V-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Vent qui porte directement le navire vers le point où l’on veut aller.
  2. 2
    Circonstances favorables, ne s’utilise guère que dans l’expression « quel bon vent vous amène ? »

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "bon vent"?
"bon vent" is spelled B-O-N- -V-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \bɔ̃ vɑ̃\.
What does "bon vent" mean?
As a noun, "bon vent" means: Vent qui porte directement le navire vers le point où l’on veut aller.
How do you pronounce "bon vent"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "bon vent" is \bɔ̃ vɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "bon vent" 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.