benji

[bɛnʒi]

/[bɛnʒi]/ noun

The verdict

“benji” is uncommon German (frequency #74,364 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#74,364
frequency rank, German
5,818
“B” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bungee-Jumping, Bungeejumping, Bungeespringen, Bungee

Corpus desk

Index DE-benji · benji · German

benji · rank #74,364 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #74,364
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,818
  • PHOTO-FINISH Benennungen

Nearest frequency peer: Benennungen (-1 rank slots)

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.

Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „benji“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „benji“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for benji
PropertyValue
Headwordbenji
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[bɛnʒi]
Letters5
Frequency rank#74,364
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „benji“ im Deutschen

Von links nach rechts: die wenigen Träger des Alltags, dann der lange Schwanz kaum gebrauchter Formen.benjifällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Ticks laufen logarithmisch; jeder ist rund zehnmal seltener. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „Benennungen“ (#74,363), „Beobachtungsgabe“ (#74,365), „beneidenswert“ (#74,362). Unter 5,818 „B“-Lemmata liegt „benji“ bei #74,364. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

benji is uncommon German at frequency #74,364 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [bɛnʒi]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Bungee-Jumping, Bungeejumping, Bungeespringen, Bungee".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for benji, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is benji, spelled B-E-N-J-I.

Definition

  1. 1
    Bungee-Jumping, Bungeejumping, Bungeespringen, Bungee

Synonyms

saut à l’élastique

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "benji"?
"benji" is spelled B-E-N-J-I. The IPA pronunciation is [bɛnʒi].
What does "benji" mean?
As a noun, "benji" means: Bungee-Jumping, Bungeejumping, Bungeespringen, Bungee
How do you pronounce "benji"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "benji" is [bɛnʒi]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "benji" come from?
"benji" is a German 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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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "benji", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list