bonne volonté
Letters
13 characters
Language
French
word origin
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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\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bonne volonté |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɔn vo.lɔ̃.te\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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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
- 1Volonté de rendre service, de bien faire ou d’être serviable.
- 2Personne dont le but est de faire le bien.
- 3Personne capable de dévouement et d’altruisme.
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