béant

adj

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The verdict

“béant” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #46,625. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#46,625
frequency rank, French
4,251
“B” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui présente une large ouverture.

Corpus desk

Index FR-beant · béant · French

béant · rank #46,625 · 8 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #46,625
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,251
  • PHOTO-FINISH Butt

Nearest frequency peer: Butt (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « béant »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « béant » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

béant vs ben
40% similar
béant vs bet
40% similar
béant vs beau
40% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for béant
PropertyValue
Headwordbéant
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
Letters5
Frequency rank#46,625
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « béant »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.béantse place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Butt » (#46,624), « bénédictine » (#46,626), « Burlington » (#46,623). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « béant » est au #46,625. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around béant, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #46,625 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for béant, with forms such as "baént", "bbéant", and "beant". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ben", "bet", "beau", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is béant, spelled B-É-A-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui présente une large ouverture.
  2. 2
    Qui bée, qui regarde avec étonnement.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how béant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. D’autres veulent crier ; et leur voix défaillantes expirent de frayeur sur leurs lèvres béantes.
  2. Et les rapides dards de leur langue brûlante s’agitent en sifflant dans leur gueule béante.

Synonyms

avide

This word in other languages

gaping(English)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • baént
  • bbéant
  • beant
  • béannt
  • béantt
  • béatn
  • bénat
  • ébant

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of béant - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

baént2bbéant1beant1béannt1béantt1béatn2bénat2ébant2
Edit distance from "béant"

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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "béant"?
"béant" is spelled B-É-A-N-T.
What does "béant" mean?
As an adjective, "béant" means: Qui présente une large ouverture.
What words are commonly confused with "béant"?
"béant" is commonly confused with "ben", "bet", "beau". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "béant" come from?
"béant" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

brava#46,619ceint#46,637Blaye#46,609ASCII#46,585

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

bonnier8 variantsCharon8 variantsBellini8 variantsBeaujeu8 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list