bonne nuit
\bɔn nɥi\
The verdict
“bonne nuit” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Se dit avant de se coucher pour souhaiter une bonne nuit à quelqu’un.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bonne-nuit · bonne nuit · French
bonne nuit · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 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 nuit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | \bɔn nɥi\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bonne nuit » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bonne nuit is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as aninterjection, transcribed \bɔn nɥi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Se dit avant de se coucher pour souhaiter une bonne nuit à quelqu’un.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for bonne nuit, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 bonne nuit, spelled B-O-N-N-E- -N-U-I-T.
Definition
- 1Se dit avant de se coucher pour souhaiter une bonne nuit à quelqu’un.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bonne nuit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bonne nuit, les enfants, faites de beaux rêves.
Madame Latour. — Allons ! bien bonne nuit, monsieur, madame.
Synonyms
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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.