bonneterie
\bɔ.nɛ.tʁi\
The verdict
“bonneterie” is uncommon French (frequency #64,977 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,977
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Art et métier du bonnetier, fabrication de vêtements en maille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bonneterie · bonneterie · French
bonneterie · rank #64,977 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,977
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bonbonne
Nearest frequency peer: bonbonne (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « bonneterie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- BNC
BNC
35,028 corpus weight
- bocquet
bocquet
35,027 corpus weight
- bonbonne
bonbonne
35,025 corpus weight
- bonneterie
bonneterie
35,024 corpus weight
- bordage
bordage
35,023 corpus weight
- bort
bort
35,022 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bonneterie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bonneterie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɔ.nɛ.tʁi\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #64,977 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bonneterie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bonneterie is uncommon French at frequency #64,977 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bɔ.nɛ.tʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for bonneterie, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is bonneterie, spelled B-O-N-N-E-T-E-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1Art et métier du bonnetier, fabrication de vêtements en maille.
- 2Marchandise qu’il vend.
- 3Commerce de bonneterie.
- 4Le lieu de fabrique de bonneterie.
- 5Le lieu de vente de bonneterie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bonneterie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Puis, en bas, dans des casiers, sur des tables, au milieu d’un empilement de coupons, débordaient des articles de bonneterie vendus pour rien, gants et fichus de laine tricotés, capelines, gilets, tout un étalage d’hiver aux couleurs bariolées.
Lorsque les fils peignés doivent être livrés en écheveaux, ce qui arrive pour les laines de bonneterie, elles sont alors dévidées sur des dévidoirs.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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