ben ouais
Letters
9 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
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ben ouais is anFrenchintj. It means: Expression de dépit qu’on utilise quand on se retrouve forcé de faire quelque chose. Pronounced \bɛ̃ wɛ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ben ouais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Intj |
| IPA | \bɛ̃ wɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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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
- 1Expression de dépit qu’on utilise quand on se retrouve forcé de faire quelque chose.
- 2Se dit en réponse à une proposition tentante ou évidente.
- 3Expression qu’on utilise pour approuver ou avouer quelque chose.
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