bonsoir
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,313
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
bonsoir is anFrenchintj. It means: Formule de politesse amicale et souvent mot d’introduction lors d’une rencontre ou lors d’un départ en soirée pour saluer. — Note d’usage : Selon le moment de la journée, on utilisera bonjour ou bo... Pronounced \bɔ̃.swaʁ\. It ranks #4,313 in French word frequency. Often confused with boudoir and bondir.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bonsoir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Intj |
| IPA | \bɔ̃.swaʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #4,313 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for bonsoir is 7 letters long, classified as anintj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bɔ̃.swaʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,313 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for bonsoir, with forms such as "bbonsoir", "bnosoir", and "bonnsoir". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "boudoir", "bondir", "bonjour", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is bonsoir, spelled B-O-N-S-O-I-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Formule de politesse amicale et souvent mot d’introduction lors d’une rencontre ou lors d’un départ en soirée pour saluer. — Note d’usage : Selon le moment de la journée, on utilisera bonjour ou bonsoir.
- 2L’affaire est réglée, n’en discutons plus.
- 3L’affaire s'avère difficile, pénible.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbonsoir,bnosoir,bonnsoir,bonosir,bonsior,bonsoirr,bonsori,bonssoir,bosnoir,obnsoir
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for bonsoir
Misspelling Variants of "bonsoir"
Frequency rank: #4,313 in French
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