ben voyons
\bɛ̃ vwa.jɔ̃\
The verdict
“ben voyons” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Se dit pour contredire ironiquement une affirmation qui vient d'être faite.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ben-voyons · ben voyons · French
ben voyons · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ben voyons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | \bɛ̃ vwa.jɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
ben voyons is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as aninterjection, transcribed \bɛ̃ vwa.jɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Se dit pour contredire ironiquement une affirmation qui vient d'être faite.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for ben voyons in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is ben voyons, spelled B-E-N- -V-O-Y-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Se dit pour contredire ironiquement une affirmation qui vient d'être faite.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ben voyons appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Par le plus grand des hasards, ils n’avaient rien à faire – eux seuls dans tout le village – et ils avaient choisi cet endroit précis pour se prélasser. Ben voyons !
Ben voyons ! Tout est faux, tout est pipeau.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.