bonne fortune
\bɔn fɔʁ.tyn\
The verdict
“bonne fortune” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Avantage inattendu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bonne-fortune · bonne fortune · French
bonne fortune · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bonne fortune |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɔn fɔʁ.tyn\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bonne fortune » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bonne fortune is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \bɔn fɔʁ.tyn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for bonne fortune, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is bonne fortune, spelled B-O-N-N-E- -F-O-R-T-U-N-E.
Definition
- 1Avantage inattendu.
- 2Faveurs d’une femme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bonne fortune appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il eut même cette bonne fortune d’inventer à plusieurs reprises un de ces vocables essentiellement parisiens que la mode consacre pendant quelques mois et qui reçoivent toujours l’accueil le plus enthousiaste […]
Ma bonne fortune reprenant le dessus, je parvins à le découvrir dans son petit appartement de la rue de Rivoli, qu’il n’avait point quitté depuis l’époque et où il allait mourir cinq mois après ma visite.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.