remède de bonne femme

\ʁə.mɛd də bɔn fam\

/\ʁə.mɛd də bɔn fam\/ noun

The verdict

“remède de bonne femme” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
21
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Remède simple et populaire à l’efficacité douteuse.

Corpus desk

Index FR-remede-de-bonne-femme · remède de bonne femme · French

remède de bonne femme · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 21 letters
  • VOW-8 8 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "R" 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.

Key facts for remède de bonne femme
PropertyValue
Headwordremède de bonne femme
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁə.mɛd də bɔn fam\
Letters21
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “remède de bonne femme” sits in French frequency

remède de bonne femme falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

remède de bonne femme is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁə.mɛd də bɔn fam\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Remède simple et populaire à l’efficacité douteuse.".

No generated misspelling entries exist for remède de bonne femme in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. 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.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is remède de bonne femme, spelled R-E-M-È-D-E- -D-E- -B-O-N-N-E- -F-E-M-M-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Remède simple et populaire à l’efficacité douteuse.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "remède de bonne femme"?
"remède de bonne femme" is spelled R-E-M-È-D-E- -D-E- -B-O-N-N-E- -F-E-M-M-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁə.mɛd də bɔn fam\.
What does "remède de bonne femme" mean?
As a noun, "remède de bonne femme" means: Remède simple et populaire à l’efficacité douteuse.
How do you pronounce "remède de bonne femme"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "remède de bonne femme" is \ʁə.mɛd də bɔn fam\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "remède de bonne femme" come from?
"remède de bonne femme" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Data Source

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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list