Bonsecours
\bɔ̃s.kuʁ\
The verdict
“Bonsecours” is uncommon French (frequency #69,632 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,632
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de la Seine-Maritime.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bonsecours · Bonsecours · French
Bonsecours · rank #69,632 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,632
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bonobos
Nearest frequency peer: bonobos (-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 « Bonsecours »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- bouillies
bouillies
30,367 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Bonsecours » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « Bonsecours » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Bonsecours is uncommon French at frequency #69,632 among 4,251 “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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