bonjours
\bɔ̃.ʒuʁ\
The verdict
“bonjours” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #41,150. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,150
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de bonjour.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bonjours · bonjours · French
bonjours · rank #41,150 · 12 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,150
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bondage
Nearest frequency peer: bondage (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « bonjours »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- blow
blow
58,854 corpus weight
- bombardée
bombardée
58,853 corpus weight
- bondage
bondage
58,852 corpus weight
- bonjours
bonjours
58,851 corpus weight
- Bonneville
Bonneville
58,850 corpus weight
- Boucherville
Boucherville
58,849 corpus weight
What this shows « bonjours » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bonjours |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɔ̃.ʒuʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #41,150 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bonjours »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around bonjours (IPA \bɔ̃.ʒuʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #41,150 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de bonjour.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for bonjours, with forms such as "bbonjours", "bnojours", and "bojnours". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "bonjour", "bonheurs", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is bonjours, spelled B-O-N-J-O-U-R-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de bonjour.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bonjours appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et voici dans le service l’arrivée d’Hamélie, toute petite bonne femme de trois ans, qui arrive pétaradante, souriante, adresse des bonjours, allant de l’un à l’autre, content d’être là.
Certains se saluent d'un geste de la main ; il y a des bonjours échangés d'une voix un peu traînante et des prénoms qui semblent jetés au hasard.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbonjours
- bnojours
- bojnours
- bonjjours
- bonjorus
- bonjourrs
- bonjourss
- bonjousr
- bonjuors
- bonnjours
- bonojurs
- obnjours
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bonjours - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).