Bontemps
\ˈbɑ̃ː(n)tɑ̃ː\
The verdict
“Bontemps” is uncommon French (frequency #63,567 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,567
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bontemps · Bontemps · French
Bontemps · rank #63,567 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,567
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bonsaï
Nearest frequency peer: bonsaï (-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 « Bontemps »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bolivienne
bolivienne
36,438 corpus weight
- Bologna
Bologna
36,437 corpus weight
- bonsaï
bonsaï
36,435 corpus weight
- Bontemps
Bontemps
36,434 corpus weight
- Borromée
Borromée
36,433 corpus weight
- bosque
bosque
36,431 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Bontemps » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bontemps |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ˈbɑ̃ː(n)tɑ̃ː\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #63,567 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Bontemps » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Bontemps is uncommon French at frequency #63,567 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ˈbɑ̃ː(n)tɑ̃ː\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Bontemps doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists 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 Bontemps, spelled B-O-N-T-E-M-P-S.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
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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