de bonne prise
The verdict
“de bonne prise” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adjective - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Se dit des navires appartenant à l'ennemi ou chargés de contrebande.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | de bonne prise |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “de bonne prise” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for de bonne prise is 14 letters long, classified as an adjective. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for de bonne prise 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 prise, spelled D-E- -B-O-N-N-E- -P-R-I-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Se dit des navires appartenant à l'ennemi ou chargés de contrebande.
- 2Se dit d’une chose qui peut être ou qui est prise avec justice.
- 3Peut se dire d’heureux emprunts que fait un écrivain.
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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Using “de bonne prise”
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- The one correct French spelling is D-E- -B-O-N-N-E- -P-R-I-S-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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