Bonny
The verdict
“Bonny” is uncommon French (frequency #62,818 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,818
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille
Corpus desk
Index FR-bonny · Bonny · French
Bonny · rank #62,818 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,818
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bohort
Nearest frequency peer: bohort (-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 « Bonny »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- blotti
blotti
37,186 corpus weight
- bluffer
bluffer
37,185 corpus weight
- bohort
bohort
37,184 corpus weight
- Bonny
Bonny
37,183 corpus weight
- boulou
boulou
37,182 corpus weight
- bouses
bouses
37,181 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Bonny » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bonny |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #62,818 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Bonny » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Bonny is uncommon French at frequency #62,818 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille".
Zero misspellings are on record for Bonny in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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. The correct French form is Bonny, spelled B-O-N-N-Y.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Bonny appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Avec : Ella Rumpf, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Clotilde Courau, Julien Frison de la Comédie-Française et Sonia Bonny.
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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