bonnet
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,930
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
bonnet is aFrenchnoun. It means: Coiffure faite ordinairement de tissu, de tricot ou de peau et dont la forme varie. Pronounced \bɔ.nɛ\. It ranks #6,930 in French word frequency. Often confused with borne and bonté.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bonnet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɔ.nɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #6,930 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for bonnet is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bɔ.nɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,930 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for bonnet, with forms such as "bbonnet", "bnonet", and "bonent". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "borne", "bonté", "boone", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 bonnet, spelled B-O-N-N-E-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Coiffure faite ordinairement de tissu, de tricot ou de peau et dont la forme varie.
- 2Pièce du soutien-gorge qui recouvre le sein.
- 3Extrémités élastiques d'un drap-housse dont la hauteur doit correspondre à celle du matelas.
- 4Synonyme de réticulum, le second estomac des ruminants.
- 5Enveloppe à œillères dont on couvre la tête des chevaux et qui a des étuis pour les oreilles.
- 6Partie arrière d'une dinde découpée comprenant le croupion et les deux cuisses.
- 7Chapeau conique en tôle que l'on dispose au dessus d'un conduit de fumée de sorte que la pluie ne puisse pas y pénétrer.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbonnet,bnonet,bonent,bonet,bonnett,bonnte,obnnet
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for bonnet
Misspelling Variants of "bonnet"
Frequency rank: #6,930 in French
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