Bonald
The verdict
“Bonald” is uncommon French (frequency #87,384 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,384
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bonald · Bonald · French
Bonald · rank #87,384 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,384
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bored
Nearest frequency peer: bored (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Bonald »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bodybuilding
bodybuilding
12,620 corpus weight
- Bodyguard
Bodyguard
12,619 corpus weight
- Bonald
Bonald
12,617 corpus weight
- bored
bored
12,616 corpus weight
- Boulenger
Boulenger
12,613 corpus weight
- Boumerdès
Boumerdès
12,612 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Bonald » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bonald |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #87,384 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Bonald » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Bonald is uncommon French at frequency #87,384 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Bonald, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Bonald, spelled B-O-N-A-L-D.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Bonald appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À droite, les ultranationaux ou les monarchistes, les pré—maurrassiens, les barressiens de la première heure, les héritiers de Bonald, Renan et Proudhon, les supporters de Déroulède, les militants de la Patrie française, et les boulangistes des rues de Paris, tous croient en l’inégalité des races.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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