prendre du bon temps
\pʁɑ̃.dʁə dy bɔ̃ tɑ̃\
The verdict
“prendre du bon temps” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - S’amuser.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prendre du bon temps |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁɑ̃.dʁə dy bɔ̃ tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “prendre du bon temps” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for prendre du bon temps is 20 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁɑ̃.dʁə dy bɔ̃ tɑ̃\. 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: "S’amuser.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for prendre du bon temps, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is prendre du bon temps, spelled P-R-E-N-D-R-E- -D-U- -B-O-N- -T-E-M-P-S.
Definition
- 1S’amuser.
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 P-R-E-N-D-R-E- -D-U- -B-O-N- -T-E-M-P-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.