bonimenteur
\bɔ.ni.mɑ̃.tœʁ\
The verdict
“bonimenteur” is uncommon French (frequency #94,542 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,542
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vendeur sur un marché, qui vante les bienfaits de sa marchandise.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bonimenteur · bonimenteur · French
bonimenteur · rank #94,542 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,542
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH blasphémateur
Nearest frequency peer: blasphémateur (-3 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 « bonimenteur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- blanchissem…
blanchissement
5,464 corpus weight
- blanchon
blanchon
5,463 corpus weight
- blasphémate…
blasphémateur
5,462 corpus weight
- bonimenteur
bonimenteur
5,459 corpus weight
- Bormann
Bormann
5,456 corpus weight
- bornées
bornées
5,455 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bonimenteur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bonimenteur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɔ.ni.mɑ̃.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #94,542 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bonimenteur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bonimenteur is uncommon French at frequency #94,542 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bɔ.ni.mɑ̃.tœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for bonimenteur in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is bonimenteur, spelled B-O-N-I-M-E-N-T-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Vendeur sur un marché, qui vante les bienfaits de sa marchandise.
- 2Présentateur chargé de commenter les films à l'époque du cinéma muet.
- 3Vendeur à l’argumentation habile.
- 4Celui qui tient des arguments plus ou moins fallacieux dans le but de séduire, persuader ou convaincre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bonimenteur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Démarcheur dans une maison d’assurances, il ne sut forcer les retraites, convaincre des gens furieux de son intrusion, et fit alors, sur les boulevards, de piteux essais de bonimenteur pour un jouet articulé…
Antoine de Maximy promène partout un air un peu distant de Kerouac aristocrate. Il pousse loin l’insolence du dialogue, avec une fausse hésitation, en retrait, plus efficace que l’excès familier des bonimenteurs de foire.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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