bonne volonté
\bɔn vo.lɔ̃.te\
The verdict
“bonne volonté” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Volonté de rendre service, de bien faire ou d’être serviable.
| 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) |
Where “bonne volonté” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for bonne volonté is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, 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.
bonne volonté has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is bonne volonté, spelled B-O-N-N-E- -V-O-L-O-N-T-É.
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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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.
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Using “bonne volonté”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is B-O-N-N-E- -V-O-L-O-N-T-É - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \bɔn vo.lɔ̃.te\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.