bonne
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#167
in French word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
bonne is aFrenchnoun. It means: Servante dans une maison bourgeoise, dans un hôtel, etc., fille chargée de soigner un enfant. Pronounced \bɔn\. It ranks #167 in French word frequency. Often confused with bons and boxe.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bonne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɔn\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #167 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for bonne is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bɔn\. Corpus data places it at rank #167 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for bonne, with forms such as "bbonne", "bnone", and "bonen". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bons", "boxe", "boue", and more, 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 bonne, spelled B-O-N-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Servante dans une maison bourgeoise, dans un hôtel, etc., fille chargée de soigner un enfant.
- 2Nom de différents paiements.
- 3Dans le système scolaire, point de notation d'une évaluation scolaire, variant en Suisse de 1 à 6. De façon similaire, la demi-bonne correspond à un demi-point sur cette même note.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbonne,bnone,bonen,obnne
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for bonne
Misspelling Variants of "bonne"
Frequency rank: #167 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter B in our French index: