bonus
\bɔ.nys\
The verdict
“bonus” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,047. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,047
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prime.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bonus · bonus · French
bonus · rank #4,047 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,047
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bleue
Nearest frequency peer: bleue (-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 « bonus »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- be
be
95,957 corpus weight
- blessures
blessures
95,956 corpus weight
- bleue
bleue
95,955 corpus weight
- bonus
bonus
95,954 corpus weight
- bouffe
bouffe
95,953 corpus weight
- bénéfices
bénéfices
95,952 corpus weight
What this shows « bonus » 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 | bonus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɔ.nys\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #4,047 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bonus »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around bonus (IPA \bɔ.nys\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,047 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for bonus, with forms such as "bbonus", "bnous", and "bonnus". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bus", "bou", "bos", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is bonus, spelled B-O-N-U-S.
Definition
- 1Prime.
- 2Élément additionnel qui offre une plus-value au produit initial.
- 3Élément additionnel qui offre une plus-value au produit initial.
- 4Ce que l’on obtient en surcroît.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bonus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Plus astucieux encore, des bonus leur sont alloués s’ils acceptent de participer activement à la diffusion de leurs inventions.
Les stocks-options, en particulier les golden parachutes et autres bonus attribués aux dirigeants, ont fait l'actualité de nombreux journaux, soulignant les limites de ces pratiques salariales.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbonus
- bnous
- bonnus
- bonsu
- bonuss
- bouns
- obnus
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bonus - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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