bonita
\bɔ.ni.ta\
The verdict
“bonita” is uncommon French (frequency #71,298 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,298
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de bonite.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bonita · bonita · French
bonita · rank #71,298 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,298
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bonduelle
Nearest frequency peer: Bonduelle (-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 « bonita »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- boiter
boiter
28,706 corpus weight
- bolle
bolle
28,705 corpus weight
- Bonduelle
Bonduelle
28,704 corpus weight
- bonita
bonita
28,703 corpus weight
- Bonnaud
Bonnaud
28,702 corpus weight
- borrel
borrel
28,700 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bonita » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bonita |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɔ.ni.ta\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #71,298 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bonita » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bonita is uncommon French at frequency #71,298 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bɔ.ni.ta\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de bonite.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for bonita, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is bonita, spelled B-O-N-I-T-A.
Definition
- 1Variante de bonite.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bonita appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Loin du Firecrest, des bonitas poursuivaient, en compagnie de dorades, des poissons volants.
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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