beneficent
/bəˈnɛ.fɪ.sənt/
"beneficent" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“beneficent” is uncommon English (frequency #75,652 among 31,241 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,652
- frequency rank, English
- 31,241
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Given to acts that are kind, charitable, philanthropic or beneficial.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | beneficent |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /bəˈnɛ.fɪ.sənt/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #75,652 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “beneficent” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
beneficent is uncommon English at frequency #75,652 among 31,241 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /bəˈnɛ.fɪ.sənt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Given to acts that are kind, charitable, philanthropic or beneficial.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for beneficent, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin *beneficens, *beneficent-, from bene (“well, good”) + -ficens, combining form from faciens, present participle of facere (“to make or do”). Compare English beneficence. The correct English form is beneficent, spelled B-E-N-E-F-I-C-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Given to acts that are kind, charitable, philanthropic or beneficial.
Etymology
From Latin *beneficens, *beneficent-, from bene (“well, good”) + -ficens, combining form from faciens, present participle of facere (“to make or do”). Compare English beneficence.
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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 “beneficent”
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- The one correct English spelling is B-E-N-E-F-I-C-E-N-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.