ben ouais

/\bɛ̃ wɛ\/ intj

Letters

9 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

ben ouais is anFrenchintj. It means: Expression de dépit qu’on utilise quand on se retrouve forcé de faire quelque chose. Pronounced \bɛ̃ wɛ\.

Key facts for ben ouais
PropertyValue
Headwordben ouais
LanguageFrench
Part of speechIntj
IPA\bɛ̃ wɛ\
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

ben ouais is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for ben ouais is 9 letters long, classified as anintj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bɛ̃ wɛ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for ben ouais in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is ben ouais, spelled B-E-N- -O-U-A-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Expression de dépit qu’on utilise quand on se retrouve forcé de faire quelque chose.
  2. 2
    Se dit en réponse à une proposition tentante ou évidente.
  3. 3
    Expression qu’on utilise pour approuver ou avouer quelque chose.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "ben ouais"?
"ben ouais" is spelled B-E-N- -O-U-A-I-S. The IPA pronunciation is \bɛ̃ wɛ\.
What does "ben ouais" mean?
As an intj, "ben ouais" means: Expression de dépit qu’on utilise quand on se retrouve forcé de faire quelque chose.
How do you pronounce "ben ouais"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "ben ouais" is \bɛ̃ wɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "ben ouais" come from?
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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.