bene
The verdict
“bene” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #26,980) as an adverb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #26,980
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bien.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bene · bene · French
bene · rank #26,980 · 3 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,980
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 3 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH belvédère
Nearest frequency peer: belvédère (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « bene »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- bed
bed
73,024 corpus weight
- beignets
beignets
73,023 corpus weight
- belvédère
belvédère
73,022 corpus weight
- bene
bene
73,021 corpus weight
- Bermudes
Bermudes
73,020 corpus weight
- berner
berner
73,019 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « bene » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bene |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #26,980 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « bene »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for bene is neighbouring look-alikes ("BN", "bon", …), not just typos; it is anadverb. Frequency #26,980 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Gloss: "Bien.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for bene, with forms such as "bbene", "bnee", and "ebne". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "BN", "bon", "blé", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is bene, spelled B-E-N-E.
Definition
- 1Bien.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bene appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tout va bene !
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbene
- bnee
- ebne
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bene - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "bene", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).