bonnet carré
\bɔ.nɛ ka.ʁe\
The verdict
“bonnet carré” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bonnet à base quadrangulaire, porté autrefois par les médecins, les professeurs, les ecclésiastiques, les juges.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bonnet-carre · bonnet carré · French
bonnet carré · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 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 | bonnet carré |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɔ.nɛ ka.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
bonnet carré is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \bɔ.nɛ ka.ʁe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for bonnet carré, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is bonnet carré, spelled B-O-N-N-E-T- -C-A-R-R-É.
Definition
- 1Bonnet à base quadrangulaire, porté autrefois par les médecins, les professeurs, les ecclésiastiques, les juges.
- 2Fruit du fusain d’Europe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bonnet carré appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces messieurs de Grenoble avec leur longue robe Et leur bonnet carré m’eurent, vous m’entendez, Et leurs bonnets carrés m’eurent bientôt jugé.
[…] le clergé en soutane avec un grand manteau et un bonnet carré, ou en robe violette et en rochet, marchait en avant […]
Synonyms
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.