être de bon poil
\ɛtʁ də bɔ̃ pwal\
The verdict
“être de bon poil” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Être de bonne humeur, bien disposé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-etre-de-bon-poil · être de bon poil · French
être de bon poil · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 16 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "Ê" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | être de bon poil |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛtʁ də bɔ̃ pwal\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « être de bon poil » en français
Rare enough to double-check
être de bon poil is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \ɛtʁ də bɔ̃ pwal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Être de bonne humeur, bien disposé.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for être de bon poil in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is être de bon poil, spelled Ê-T-R-E- -D-E- -B-O-N- -P-O-I-L.
Definition
- 1Être de bonne humeur, bien disposé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how être de bon poil appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pourquoi arrive-t-il même aux imberbes d’être de mauvais poil ?
Qu’est-ce que j’ai pu vous raconter, à ce moment-là ? Je devais être emmerdé, comme d’habitude, et pas trop de bon poil… Non ?
Antonyms
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.