benefits
/ˈbɛn.ɪˌfɪts/noun, verb
benefits is spelled B-E-N-E-F-I-T-S. The wrong spelling people search most is benifits: about 2,050 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 21 of all searches for the word. Benefits is a noun meaning “public assistance; welfare”.
How do you spell benefits?
Benefits is spelled B-E-N-E-F-I-T-S. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 21 of the searches for benefits in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
What does benefits mean?
noun
- 1
plural of benefit
- 2
public assistance; welfare.
verb
- 1
third-person singular simple present indicative of benefit
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce benefits?
- UK /ˈbɛn.ɪ.fɪts/
- US /ˈbɛn.ɪˌfɪts/
- US /ˈbɛn.əˌfɪts/
Benefits has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-AnotherFriendlyHuman-benefits.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
How common is benefits?
Benefits appears 69 times per million words in written English, the 1,528th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).