buena
\ˈbwe.na\
The verdict
“buena” is uncommon French (frequency #62,828 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,828
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de bueno.
Corpus desk
Index FR-buena · buena · French
buena · rank #62,828 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,828
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bruxelloises
Nearest frequency peer: bruxelloises (-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 « buena »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- brilliant
brilliant
37,177 corpus weight
- brisure
brisure
37,176 corpus weight
- bruxelloises
bruxelloises
37,174 corpus weight
- buena
buena
37,173 corpus weight
- bâlois
bâlois
37,171 corpus weight
- bénard
bénard
37,170 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « buena » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | buena |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈbwe.na\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #62,828 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « buena » en français
Rare enough to double-check
buena is uncommon French at frequency #62,828 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈbwe.na\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de bueno.".
Zero misspellings are on record for buena in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is buena, spelled B-U-E-N-A.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de bueno.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how buena appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La ciudad no es buena para los que os habéis criado en el campo.
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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