pro bono

/\pʁo bo.no\/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

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similar word pairs

pro bono is aFrenchnoun. It means: Engagement de volontaires qui donnent du sens à leur activité en s’impliquant dans des initiatives d’intérêt général à titre gracieux. Pronounced \pʁo bo.no\.

Key facts for pro bono
PropertyValue
Headwordpro bono
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pʁo bo.no\
Letters8
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

pro bono is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for pro bono is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁo bo.no\. 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: "Engagement de volontaires qui donnent du sens à leur activité en s’impliquant dans des initiatives d’intérêt général à titre gracieux.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for pro bono in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 pro bono, spelled P-R-O- -B-O-N-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Engagement de volontaires qui donnent du sens à leur activité en s’impliquant dans des initiatives d’intérêt général à titre gracieux.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pro bono"?
"pro bono" is spelled P-R-O- -B-O-N-O. The IPA pronunciation is \pʁo bo.no\.
What does "pro bono" mean?
As a noun, "pro bono" means: Engagement de volontaires qui donnent du sens à leur activité en s’impliquant dans des initiatives d’intérêt général à titre gracieux.
How do you pronounce "pro bono"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pro bono" is \pʁo bo.no\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pro bono" come from?
"pro bono" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.