bonito
\boˈni.to\
The verdict
“bonito” is uncommon French (frequency #89,466 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,466
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Beau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bonito · bonito · French
bonito · rank #89,466 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,466
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bonnel
Nearest frequency peer: Bonnel (+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 « bonito »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bombasse
bombasse
10,539 corpus weight
- bombyx
bombyx
10,538 corpus weight
- bonito
bonito
10,535 corpus weight
- Bonnel
Bonnel
10,534 corpus weight
- bouclant
bouclant
10,533 corpus weight
- bouleversan…
bouleversantes
10,532 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bonito » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bonito |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \boˈni.to\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #89,466 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bonito » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bonito is uncommon French at frequency #89,466 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \boˈni.to\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for bonito, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is bonito, spelled B-O-N-I-T-O.
Definition
- 1Beau.
- 2Mignon.
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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