bonté
French, noun/bɔ̃.te/
bonté is spelled B-O-N-T-É (5 letters) and appears 6.2 times per million words in written French, the 9,615th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bonté is a French feminine noun meaning “goodness, kindness” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qualité de ce qui est bon”.
What does bonté mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininegoodness, kindness
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Qualité de ce qui est bon. 2. Justice. 3. Qualité morale qui porte à être doux, facile, indulgent, à faire du bien. 4. Égard.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of bonté
- bontés plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce bonté?
- /bɔ̃.te/
- \bɔ̃.te\
- [bɔ̃.te]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to bonté
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bonté in French?
bonté appears 6.2 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).