bun
\bœn\
The verdict
“bun” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #45,486) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #45,486
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Brioche, petit pain au lait.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bun · bun · French
bun · rank #45,486 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #45,486
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH brion
Nearest frequency peer: brion (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « bun »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- Bradshaw
Bradshaw
54,518 corpus weight
- branding
branding
54,517 corpus weight
- brion
brion
54,516 corpus weight
- bun
bun
54,515 corpus weight
- calamités
calamités
54,514 corpus weight
- camisole
camisole
54,511 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « bun » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | bun |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bœn\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #45,486 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « bun »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for bun is neighbouring look-alikes ("by", "BV", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \bœn\. Frequency #45,486 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Gloss: "Brioche, petit pain au lait.".
bun doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "by", "BV", "BX", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is bun, spelled B-U-N.
Definition
- 1Brioche, petit pain au lait.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bun appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il recommanda du thé et Catrin accepta de manger quelques buns.
C’est là que je vais apprendre à me nourrir d’un mélange de lait frappé et de glace à la vanille qui agit sur moi comme un soporifique ; de beignets ronds et gras et sucrés ; de coca-cola qu’ils ont abrégé et appellent coke ; de crêpes au sirop d’érable et de viande hachée cuite sous forme ronde et posée dans des sortes de pains ronds et mous qu’il appell…
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).