bonhomme de neige

/\bɔ.nɔm də nɛʒ\/ noun

Letters

17 characters

Language

French

word origin

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bonhomme de neige is aFrenchnoun. It means: Statue humanoïde faite de neige. Pronounced \bɔ.nɔm də nɛʒ\.

Key facts for bonhomme de neige
PropertyValue
Headwordbonhomme de neige
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\bɔ.nɔm də nɛʒ\
Letters17
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

bonhomme de neige is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for bonhomme de neige is 17 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bɔ.nɔm də nɛʒ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Statue humanoïde faite de neige.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for bonhomme de neige in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is bonhomme de neige, spelled B-O-N-H-O-M-M-E- -D-E- -N-E-I-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Statue humanoïde faite de neige.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "bonhomme de neige"?
"bonhomme de neige" is spelled B-O-N-H-O-M-M-E- -D-E- -N-E-I-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \bɔ.nɔm də nɛʒ\.
What does "bonhomme de neige" mean?
As a noun, "bonhomme de neige" means: Statue humanoïde faite de neige.
How do you pronounce "bonhomme de neige"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "bonhomme de neige" is \bɔ.nɔm də nɛʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "bonhomme de neige" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.