revenant-bon
The verdict
“revenant-bon” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Profit casuel et éventuel provenant d’un marché, d’une charge, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-revenant-bon · revenant-bon · French
revenant-bon · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | revenant-bon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « revenant-bon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
revenant-bon is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
revenant-bon doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 revenant-bon, spelled R-E-V-E-N-A-N-T---B-O-N.
Definition
- 1Profit casuel et éventuel provenant d’un marché, d’une charge, etc.
- 2Profit ou avantage qui vient par une sorte de hasard.
- 3Réaction à une action ; contrecoup.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how revenant-bon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tricoche n'avait jamais eu qu'un rêve, qu'un désir, qu'une joie c'était de tromper Cacolet, d'agir sans lui, contre lui au besoin, d'empocher seul les revenants bons d'une opération organisée et menée par lui seul à l’insu de son associé !...
C’est le revenant-bon du métier.
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.