bones
\bɔ̃.nəs\
The verdict
“bones” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,228. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,228
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cas sujet féminin pluriel de bon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bones · bones · French
bones · rank #25,228 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,228
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bora
Nearest frequency peer: bora (+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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « bones »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- blogueur
blogueur
74,776 corpus weight
- boiteux
boiteux
74,775 corpus weight
- bones
bones
74,773 corpus weight
- bora
bora
74,772 corpus weight
- bouges
bouges
74,771 corpus weight
- boulette
boulette
74,770 corpus weight
What this shows « bones » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | bones |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \bɔ̃.nəs\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #25,228 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bones »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around bones (IPA \bɔ̃.nəs\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #25,228 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for bones, with forms such as "bbones", "bnoes", and "boens". 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, "bos", "bons", "boss", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is bones, spelled B-O-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1Cas sujet féminin pluriel de bon.
- 2Cas régime féminin pluriel de bon.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbones
- bnoes
- boens
- boness
- bonse
- obnes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bones - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).