Bénarès
\be.na.ʁɛs\
The verdict
“Bénarès” is uncommon French (frequency #72,987 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,987
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Synonyme de Varanasi.
Corpus desk
Index FR-benares · Bénarès · French
Bénarès · rank #72,987 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,987
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bégaie
Nearest frequency peer: bégaie (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Bénarès »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Bundesbank
Bundesbank
27,017 corpus weight
- burst
burst
27,016 corpus weight
- bégaie
bégaie
27,015 corpus weight
- Bénarès
Bénarès
27,014 corpus weight
- cadrent
cadrent
27,013 corpus weight
- calices
calices
27,012 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Bénarès » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bénarès |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \be.na.ʁɛs\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #72,987 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Bénarès » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Bénarès is uncommon French at frequency #72,987 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \be.na.ʁɛs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Synonyme de Varanasi.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Bénarès, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Bénarès, spelled B-É-N-A-R-È-S.
Definition
- 1Synonyme de Varanasi.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Bénarès appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’ai vu l’un des derniers princes de Bénarès entrer dans le palais lors du mariage de son fils aîné ; il y avait quarante éléphants surmontés de palanquins d’ivoire et remplis de tout ce que l’Inde du Rajasthan au Bihar, comportait de sang noble. J’avais quatre ans. Tous ruisselaient d’or.
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); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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