ben voyons

/\bɛ̃ vwa.jɔ̃\/ intj

Letters

10 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

ben voyons is anFrenchintj. It means: Se dit pour contredire ironiquement une affirmation qui vient d'être faite. Pronounced \bɛ̃ vwa.jɔ̃\.

Key facts for ben voyons
PropertyValue
Headwordben voyons
LanguageFrench
Part of speechIntj
IPA\bɛ̃ vwa.jɔ̃\
Letters10
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for ben voyons is 10 letters long, classified as anintj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bɛ̃ vwa.jɔ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Se dit pour contredire ironiquement une affirmation qui vient d'être faite.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for ben voyons in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 voyons, spelled B-E-N- -V-O-Y-O-N-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Se dit pour contredire ironiquement une affirmation qui vient d'être faite.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "ben voyons"?
"ben voyons" is spelled B-E-N- -V-O-Y-O-N-S. The IPA pronunciation is \bɛ̃ vwa.jɔ̃\.
What does "ben voyons" mean?
As an intj, "ben voyons" means: Se dit pour contredire ironiquement une affirmation qui vient d'être faite.
How do you pronounce "ben voyons"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "ben voyons" is \bɛ̃ vwa.jɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "ben voyons" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.