bonde
\bɔ̃d\
The verdict
“bonde” is uncommon French (frequency #58,460 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,460
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ouverture destinée à faire écouler l’eau d’un étang, d’un tonneau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bonde · bonde · French
bonde · rank #58,460 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,460
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH boer
Nearest frequency peer: boer (-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 « bonde »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- blanquette
blanquette
41,544 corpus weight
- blockhaus
blockhaus
41,543 corpus weight
- boer
boer
41,542 corpus weight
- bonde
bonde
41,541 corpus weight
- bourrasque
bourrasque
41,540 corpus weight
- bous
bous
41,539 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bonde » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bonde |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɔ̃d\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #58,460 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bonde » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bonde is uncommon French at frequency #58,460 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bɔ̃d\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
bonde has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is bonde, spelled B-O-N-D-E.
Definition
- 1Ouverture destinée à faire écouler l’eau d’un étang, d’un tonneau.
- 2Tampon ou pièce de bois ou silicone qui bouche cette ouverture. Quand il s’agit d’un tonneau de vin, on dit aussi bondon.
- 3Pièce en métal à l’orifice des lavabos ou des éviers.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bonde appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C'est alors que la fermentation s'opère ; elle s'achève dans des tonneaux dont on laisse les bondes ouvertes.
Je vidais le contenu de la cruche par le trou de bonde du baril.
This word in other languages
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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