bonsoir
\bɔ̃.swaʁ\
The verdict
“bonsoir” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,313. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,313
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 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...
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Index FR-bonsoir · bonsoir · French
bonsoir · rank #4,313 · 10 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,313
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bite
Nearest frequency peer: bite (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « bonsoir »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- auxquels
auxquels
95,691 corpus weight
- belges
belges
95,690 corpus weight
- bite
bite
95,689 corpus weight
- bonsoir
bonsoir
95,688 corpus weight
- box
box
95,687 corpus weight
- caractères
caractères
95,686 corpus weight
What this shows « bonsoir » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bonsoir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | \bɔ̃.swaʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #4,313 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bonsoir »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around bonsoir (IPA \bɔ̃.swaʁ\), aninterjection. Corpus frequency is #4,313 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for bonsoir, with forms such as "bbonsoir", "bnosoir", and "bonnsoir". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "boudoir", "bondir", "bonjour", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 bonsoir, spelled B-O-N-S-O-I-R.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bonsoir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il plongea ses yeux dans ceux de Nan. Bonsoir, dit-il, gaiement. N'étiez-vous pas au bar, il y a quelques minutes ?
Nicolas m'adresse un petit sourire et prend la parole. — Bien, bonsoir à tous, je pense que nous allons pouvoir commencer tout le monde est arrivé.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbonsoir
- bnosoir
- bonnsoir
- bonosir
- bonsior
- bonsoirr
- bonsori
- bonssoir
- bosnoir
- obnsoir
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bonsoir - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "bonsoir", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).