bonjour
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#625
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
bonjour is anFrenchintj. It means: Formule de salutation utilisée lorsqu’on rencontre quelqu’un. Pronounced \bɔ̃.ʒuʁ\. It ranks #625 in French word frequency. Often confused with bonsoir and bonjours.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bonjour |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Intj |
| IPA | \bɔ̃.ʒuʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #625 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for bonjour is 7 letters long, classified as anintj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bɔ̃.ʒuʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #625 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for bonjour, with forms such as "bbonjour", "bnojour", and "bojnour". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "bonsoir", "bonjours", "bonheur", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 bonjour, spelled B-O-N-J-O-U-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Formule de salutation utilisée lorsqu’on rencontre quelqu’un.
- 2Formulation de salutation utilisée lorsqu’on quitte quelqu’un dans la journée comme on dirait bonne journée, ou la nuit bonsoir, bonne soirée.
- 3Interjection marquant une réticence, un refus, un jugement de médiocrité.
- 4Formule de politesse utilisée lorsqu’on quitte quelqu’un au téléphone :
- 5Formule de politesse utilisée lorsqu’on quitte quelqu’un au téléphone :
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbonjour,bnojour,bojnour,bonjjour,bonjoru,bonjourr,bonjuor,bonnjour,bonojur,obnjour
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for bonjour
Misspelling Variants of "bonjour"
Frequency rank: #625 in French
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Nearby French words
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