bénédiction
Letters
11 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,283
in French word usage
Misspellings
17
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
bénédiction is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de bénir, de consacrer au culte, au service divin avec certaines cérémonies. Pronounced \be.ne.dik.sjɔ̃\. It ranks #9,283 in French word frequency. Often confused with bénédictions and bénédictin.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bénédiction |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \be.ne.dik.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #9,283 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for bénédiction is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \be.ne.dik.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #9,283 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for bénédiction, with forms such as "bbénédiction", "benediction", and "bnéédiction". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "bénédictions", "bénédictin", "bénédictins", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 bénédiction, spelled B-É-N-É-D-I-C-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Action de bénir, de consacrer au culte, au service divin avec certaines cérémonies.
- 2Action d’un prélat ou d’un prêtre qui bénit une personne ou une chose en faisant sur elles le signe de la croix.
- 3Action par laquelle les pères et mères bénissent leurs enfants.
- 4Grâce et faveur particulière du Ciel.
- 5Excès d’une chose fâcheuse, désagréable.
- 6Vœux qu’on fait pour la prospérité de quelqu’un, des souhaits qu’on forme en sa faveur.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbénédiction,benediction,bnéédiction,béndéiction,bénnédiction,bénédcition,bénéddiction,bénédicction,bénédiciton,bénédictino,bénédictionn,bénédictoin,bénédicttion,bénéditcion,bénéidction,bééndiction,ébnédiction
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "bénédiction"
Frequency rank: #9,283 in French
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Nearby French words
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