bonbonnière
\bɔ̃.bɔ.njɛʁ\
The verdict
“bonbonnière” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Boîte à bonbons.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bonbonniere · bonbonnière · French
bonbonnière · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bonbonnière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɔ̃.bɔ.njɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
bonbonnière is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \bɔ̃.bɔ.njɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
bonbonnière doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is bonbonnière, spelled B-O-N-B-O-N-N-I-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Boîte à bonbons.
- 2Petite maison, petit appartement, arrangés avec beaucoup de propreté et de goût.
- 3Petit studio de jeune fille aménagé avec un soin reflétant la féminité.
- 4Vendeuse de bonbons.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bonbonnière appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans une vitrine s’étale une collection rare de bonbonnières avec des médaillons, des incrustations, des ivoires sculptés, des camées aux ombres douces.
Comme s’il sentait que ma cicatrice m’élançait, il resta à l’autre bout de la cuisine, reprit les cookies des mains d’Erica et les remit dans la bonbonnière.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.