conte de bonne femme

/\kɔ̃t də bɔn fam\/ noun

Letters

20 characters

Language

French

word origin

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conte de bonne femme is aFrenchnoun. It means: Histoire que l’on sait être fausse. Pronounced \kɔ̃t də bɔn fam\.

Key facts for conte de bonne femme
PropertyValue
Headwordconte de bonne femme
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kɔ̃t də bɔn fam\
Letters20
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

conte de bonne femme is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for conte de bonne femme is 20 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃t də bɔn fam\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Histoire que l’on sait être fausse.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for conte de bonne femme in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is conte de bonne femme, spelled C-O-N-T-E- -D-E- -B-O-N-N-E- -F-E-M-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Histoire que l’on sait être fausse.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "conte de bonne femme"?
"conte de bonne femme" is spelled C-O-N-T-E- -D-E- -B-O-N-N-E- -F-E-M-M-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ̃t də bɔn fam\.
What does "conte de bonne femme" mean?
As a noun, "conte de bonne femme" means: Histoire que l’on sait être fausse.
How do you pronounce "conte de bonne femme"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "conte de bonne femme" is \kɔ̃t də bɔn fam\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.