de bom grado
\dɨ bˈõ gɾˈa.du\
The verdict
“de bom grado” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adverb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Volontiers, de bon gré.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | de bom grado |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \dɨ bˈõ gɾˈa.du\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “de bom grado” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for de bom grado is 12 letters long, classified as an adverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dɨ bˈõ gɾˈa.du\. 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: "Volontiers, de bon gré.".
No misspelling variants are generated for de bom grado in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 de bom grado, spelled D-E- -B-O-M- -G-R-A-D-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Volontiers, de bon gré.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct French spelling is D-E- -B-O-M- -G-R-A-D-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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