Bonsecours
\bɔ̃s.kuʁ\
The verdict
“Bonsecours” is uncommon French (frequency #69,632 among 227,490 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,632
- frequency rank, French
- 227,490
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de la Seine-Maritime.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bonsecours |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \bɔ̃s.kuʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #69,632 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Bonsecours” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Bonsecours is uncommon French at frequency #69,632 among 227,490 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \bɔ̃s.kuʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Bonsecours, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 Bonsecours, spelled B-O-N-S-E-C-O-U-R-S.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de la Seine-Maritime.
- 2Municipalité canadienne du Québec située dans la MRC du Val-Saint-François.
- 3Ancienne municipalité du Québec, en Chaudière-Appalaches, appelée L’Islet-sur-Mer depuis 1968.
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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Using “Bonsecours”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is B-O-N-S-E-C-O-U-R-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \bɔ̃s.kuʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.