buona
\ˈbwɔ.na\
The verdict
“buona” is uncommon French (frequency #86,494 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,494
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de buono.
Corpus desk
Index FR-buona · buona · French
buona · rank #86,494 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,494
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH burritos
Nearest frequency peer: burritos (+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 « buona »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bréda
bréda
13,511 corpus weight
- brûlots
brûlots
13,510 corpus weight
- buona
buona
13,507 corpus weight
- burritos
burritos
13,506 corpus weight
- Busson
Busson
13,505 corpus weight
- béryl
béryl
13,502 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « buona » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | buona |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈbwɔ.na\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #86,494 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « buona » en français
Rare enough to double-check
buona is uncommon French at frequency #86,494 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈbwɔ.na\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de buono.".
buona has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is buona, spelled B-U-O-N-A.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de buono.
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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