bonite
\bɔ.nit\
The verdict
“bonite” is uncommon French (frequency #96,688 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,688
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Poisson de mer de la même famille que les thons, présent dans les tropiques et les régions limitrophes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bonite · bonite · French
bonite · rank #96,688 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,688
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bongos
Nearest frequency peer: bongos (-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 « bonite »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bluette
bluette
3,317 corpus weight
- blâmée
blâmée
3,316 corpus weight
- bongos
bongos
3,314 corpus weight
- bonite
bonite
3,313 corpus weight
- bourgeonnem…
bourgeonnement
3,310 corpus weight
- bourrache
bourrache
3,309 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bonite » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bonite |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɔ.nit\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #96,688 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bonite » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bonite is uncommon French at frequency #96,688 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bɔ.nit\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Poisson de mer de la même famille que les thons, présent dans les tropiques et les régions limitrophes.".
No misspelling variants are generated for bonite in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is bonite, spelled B-O-N-I-T-E.
Definition
- 1Poisson de mer de la même famille que les thons, présent dans les tropiques et les régions limitrophes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bonite appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le digne garçon, classificateur enragé, n’était point un naturaliste, et je ne sais pas s’il aurait distingué un thon d’une bonite.
Maquereaux, bonites, thazards, wahoos et thons sont tous membres de la famille des scombridés.
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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