Bonn
\bɔn\
The verdict
“Bonn” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #19,458) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #19,458
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville, commune et arrondissement d’Allemagne, située dans la Rhénanie-du-Nord-Westphalie, qui était la capitale de la République fédérale d’Allemagne entre 1949 et 1990.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bonn · Bonn · French
Bonn · rank #19,458 · 3 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,458
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 3 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH blogue
Nearest frequency peer: blogue (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « Bonn »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- Bert
Bert
80,546 corpus weight
- bienheureux
bienheureux
80,545 corpus weight
- blogue
blogue
80,544 corpus weight
- Bonn
Bonn
80,543 corpus weight
- bouillie
bouillie
80,542 corpus weight
- bovins
bovins
80,541 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « Bonn » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | Bonn |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \bɔn\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #19,458 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « Bonn »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Bonn is neighbouring look-alikes ("box", "boy", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced \bɔn\. Frequency #19,458 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Gloss: "Ville, commune et arrondissement d’Allemagne, située dans la Rhénanie-du-Nord-Westphalie, qui était la capitale de la République fédérale d’Allemagne entre 1949 et 1990.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for Bonn, with forms such as "bbonn", "bnon", and "obnn". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "box", "boy", "bot", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Bonn, spelled B-O-N-N.
Definition
- 1Ville, commune et arrondissement d’Allemagne, située dans la Rhénanie-du-Nord-Westphalie, qui était la capitale de la République fédérale d’Allemagne entre 1949 et 1990.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Bonn appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le professeur Albers (de Bonn), a vu sur cet animal le cœur se spasmodiser, pâlir et diminuer de volume dans le même moment que des contractions convulsives se montraient dans les membres.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbonn
- bnon
- obnn
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Bonn - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).