benedictus
\be.neˈdik.tus\
The verdict
“benedictus” is uncommon French (frequency #95,597 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,597
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé de benedico :
Corpus desk
Index FR-benedictus · benedictus · French
benedictus · rank #95,597 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,597
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Berlaymont
Nearest frequency peer: Berlaymont (+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 « benedictus »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Belaïd
Belaïd
4,406 corpus weight
- benedictus
benedictus
4,404 corpus weight
- Berlaymont
Berlaymont
4,403 corpus weight
- berlinette
berlinette
4,402 corpus weight
- berthon
berthon
4,401 corpus weight
- Betz
Betz
4,400 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « benedictus » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | benedictus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \be.neˈdik.tus\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #95,597 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « benedictus » en français
Rare enough to double-check
benedictus is uncommon French at frequency #95,597 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \be.neˈdik.tus\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for benedictus in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is benedictus, spelled B-E-N-E-D-I-C-T-U-S.
Definition
- 1Participe passé de benedico :
- 2Participe passé de benedico :
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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