bonzes
\bɔ̃z\
The verdict
“bonzes” is uncommon French (frequency #67,330 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,330
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de bonze.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bonzes · bonzes · French
bonzes · rank #67,330 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,330
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bollène
Nearest frequency peer: Bollène (-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 « bonzes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- boliviens
boliviens
32,674 corpus weight
- boll
boll
32,673 corpus weight
- Bollène
Bollène
32,672 corpus weight
- bonzes
bonzes
32,671 corpus weight
- bory
bory
32,669 corpus weight
- bouffi
bouffi
32,668 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bonzes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bonzes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɔ̃z\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #67,330 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bonzes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bonzes is uncommon French at frequency #67,330 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bɔ̃z\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de bonze.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for bonzes, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is bonzes, spelled B-O-N-Z-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de bonze.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bonzes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Car il y a plus fort que les rabbins, les lamas, les bonzes, les imams, les brahmanes dans ce moyen de déprécier la vie afin d’en ressaturer cet angle immonde appelé par les profiteurs de l’occulte : éternité et infini.
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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