bonheur
\bɔ.nœʁ\
The verdict
“bonheur” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,318. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,318
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - État heureux causé par une complète satisfaction.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bonheur · bonheur · French
bonheur · rank #1,318 · 10 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,318
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH avocat
Nearest frequency peer: avocat (-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 « bonheur »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- appris
appris
98,686 corpus weight
- arrêt
arrêt
98,685 corpus weight
- avocat
avocat
98,684 corpus weight
- bonheur
bonheur
98,683 corpus weight
- budget
budget
98,682 corpus weight
- caractère
caractère
98,681 corpus weight
What this shows « bonheur » 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 | bonheur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɔ.nœʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,318 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bonheur »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around bonheur (IPA \bɔ.nœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,318 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for bonheur, with forms such as "bbonheur", "bnoheur", and "bohneur". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "boxeur", "bonjour", "bosseur", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is bonheur, spelled B-O-N-H-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1État heureux causé par une complète satisfaction.
- 2Événement heureux.
- 3Chance favorable.
- 4Réussite, prospérité.
- 5Bon hasard, par des circonstances heureuses, dans les choses qu’on entreprend.
- 6Résultat variable d’une action (généralement au pluriel).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bonheur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Étymologiquement, le mot bonheur provient de deux mots latins : bonum et augurum. Le premier signifie « bon, positif, favorable » tandis que le deuxième se traduit par « augure, présage ou divination ». Le bonheur se définit par un état de contentement qui peut être permanent, sinon durable, et qui peut croître.
J’ai passé neuf ans près de toi, neuf ans d’un bonheur qui n’était pas fait pour ce monde ; c’est plus qu’aucun homme n’en a jamais obtenu.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbonheur
- bnoheur
- bohneur
- bonehur
- bonheru
- bonheurr
- bonhheur
- bonhuer
- bonnheur
- obnheur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bonheur - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).