bone
The verdict
“bone” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #28,075) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #28,075
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Borne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bone · bone · French
bone · rank #28,075 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,075
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bisounours
Nearest frequency peer: Bisounours (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « bone »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- bee
bee
71,929 corpus weight
- bienfaiteur
bienfaiteur
71,928 corpus weight
- Bisounours
Bisounours
71,927 corpus weight
- bone
bone
71,926 corpus weight
- bouchers
bouchers
71,925 corpus weight
- bourgeoises
bourgeoises
71,924 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « bone » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bone |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #28,075 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « bone »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for bone is neighbouring look-alikes ("box", "boy", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #28,075 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Gloss: "Borne.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for bone, with forms such as "bbone", "bnoe", and "boen". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "box", "boy", "bye", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is bone, spelled B-O-N-E.
Definition
- 1Borne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bone appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et quant les bonnes [à la terre] i mettaient, Mainte fois s’entre combativité, Et se tolurent ce qu’il porent ; Li plus fort les greignors pars orant
Envie fet homme tuer, Et si fet bonnes remuer, Envie fet rooingner terre, Envie met ou siècle guerre.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbone
- bnoe
- boen
- obne
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bone - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "bone", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).