bénédictin
\be.ne.dik.tɛ̃\
The verdict
“bénédictin” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,196. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,196
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Religieux de l’ordre de Saint-Benoît.
Corpus desk
Index FR-benedictin · bénédictin · French
bénédictin · rank #39,196 · 16 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,196
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Béatrix
Nearest frequency peer: Béatrix (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « bénédictin »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- buzzer
buzzer
60,808 corpus weight
- bâtisseur
bâtisseur
60,807 corpus weight
- Béatrix
Béatrix
60,806 corpus weight
- bénédictin
bénédictin
60,805 corpus weight
- caduc
caduc
60,804 corpus weight
- caleçons
caleçons
60,803 corpus weight
What this shows « bénédictin » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | bénédictin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \be.ne.dik.tɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #39,196 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bénédictin »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around bénédictin (IPA \be.ne.dik.tɛ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #39,196 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for bénédictin, with forms such as "bbénédictin", "benedictin", and "bnéédictin". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "bénédiction", "bénédictins", "bénédictine", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is bénédictin, spelled B-É-N-É-D-I-C-T-I-N.
Definition
- 1Religieux de l’ordre de Saint-Benoît.
- 2Érudit qui se livre au travail sans que rien puisse jamais l’en distraire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bénédictin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les bénédictins dans cette occurrence péchèrent donc par orgueil. Ils se fièrent aux nombreux domestiques du couvent qu’ils croyaient capables de repousser une attaque. […]. Ils se fièrent aussi en Dieu, les pauvres moines, et en leur bonne cause. […]. Mais les bénédictins avaient mal placé leur confiance. Dieu pour les éprouver sans doute, jugea à propos…
Il y existait de toute ancienneté une abbaye […] Elle était primitivement desservie par des bénédictins ; mais vers 1343 Philippe de Valois en fit don aux cordeliers.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbénédictin
- benedictin
- bnéédictin
- béndéictin
- bénnédictin
- bénédcitin
- bénéddictin
- bénédicctin
- bénédicitn
- bénédictinn
- bénédictni
- bénédicttin
- bénéditcin
- bénéidctin
- bééndictin
- ébnédictin
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bénédictin - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).