bonobos
\bo.no.bo\
The verdict
“bonobos” is uncommon French (frequency #69,631 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,631
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de bonobo.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bonobos · bonobos · French
bonobos · rank #69,631 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,631
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bonnasse
Nearest frequency peer: bonnasse (-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 « bonobos »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Boltanski
Boltanski
30,373 corpus weight
- bombardant
bombardant
30,372 corpus weight
- bonnasse
bonnasse
30,371 corpus weight
- bonobos
bonobos
30,370 corpus weight
- Bonsecours
Bonsecours
30,369 corpus weight
- Bouba
Bouba
30,368 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bonobos » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bonobos |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bo.no.bo\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #69,631 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bonobos » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bonobos is uncommon French at frequency #69,631 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bo.no.bo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de bonobo.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for bonobos, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is bonobos, spelled B-O-N-O-B-O-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de bonobo.
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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