bonet
The verdict
“bonet” is uncommon French (frequency #72,122 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,122
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Feutre ou bourre de laine dont on faisait des couvre-chefs, par la suite appelés bonnets.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bonet · bonet · French
bonet · rank #72,122 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,122
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH boring
Nearest frequency peer: boring (+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 « bonet »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bloquera
bloquera
27,882 corpus weight
- bohr
bohr
27,881 corpus weight
- bonet
bonet
27,879 corpus weight
- boring
boring
27,878 corpus weight
- borna
borna
27,877 corpus weight
- bouffeur
bouffeur
27,876 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bonet » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bonet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #72,122 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bonet » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bonet is uncommon French at frequency #72,122 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Feutre ou bourre de laine dont on faisait des couvre-chefs, par la suite appelés bonnets.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for bonet, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 bonet, spelled B-O-N-E-T.
Definition
- 1Feutre ou bourre de laine dont on faisait des couvre-chefs, par la suite appelés bonnets.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bonet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
chappeaulx de bonnet.
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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