de bonne foi
\də bɔ.nə fwa\
The verdict
“de bonne foi” 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) - Avec de la bonne foi.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | de bonne foi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \də bɔ.nə fwa\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “de bonne foi” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for de bonne foi is 12 letters long, classified as an adverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \də bɔ.nə fwa\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for de bonne foi 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 bonne foi, spelled D-E- -B-O-N-N-E- -F-O-I, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Avec de la bonne foi.
- 2Façon de parler dont on se sert pour engager une personne à répondre, à s’exprimer franchement, ou à ne juger d’une chose que selon le bon sens, la conscience, etc.
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is D-E- -B-O-N-N-E- -F-O-I - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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