benedick
"benedick" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“benedick” is uncommon English (frequency #86,061 among 31,241 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,061
- frequency rank, English
- 31,241
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A recently married man, especially one who has long held out against marriage.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | benedick |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #86,061 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “benedick” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
benedick is uncommon English at frequency #86,061 among 31,241 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A recently married man, especially one who has long held out against marriage.".
Zero misspellings are on record for benedick in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From the character in William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. The correct English form is benedick, spelled B-E-N-E-D-I-C-K.
Definition
- 1A recently married man, especially one who has long held out against marriage.
Etymology
From the character in William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “benedick”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is B-E-N-E-D-I-C-K - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.