bonne volonté

/\bɔn vo.lɔ̃.te\/ noun

Letters

13 characters

Language

French

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bonne volonté is aFrenchnoun. It means: Volonté de rendre service, de bien faire ou d’être serviable. Pronounced \bɔn vo.lɔ̃.te\.

Key facts for bonne volonté
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Headwordbonne volonté
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\bɔn vo.lɔ̃.te\
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

bonne volonté is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for bonne volonté is 13 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bɔn vo.lɔ̃.te\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for bonne volonté in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 volonté, spelled B-O-N-N-E- -V-O-L-O-N-T-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Volonté de rendre service, de bien faire ou d’être serviable.
  2. 2
    Personne dont le but est de faire le bien.
  3. 3
    Personne capable de dévouement et d’altruisme.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "bonne volonté"?
"bonne volonté" is spelled B-O-N-N-E- -V-O-L-O-N-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \bɔn vo.lɔ̃.te\.
What does "bonne volonté" mean?
As a noun, "bonne volonté" means: Volonté de rendre service, de bien faire ou d’être serviable.
How do you pronounce "bonne volonté"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "bonne volonté" is \bɔn vo.lɔ̃.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "bonne volonté" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.