bénéfice
French, noun/be.ne.fis/
bénéfice is spelled B-É-N-É-F-I-C-E (8 letters) and appears 21 times per million words in written French, the 3,674th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bénéfice is a French masculine noun meaning “profit, earning” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Gain ou profit”.
What does bénéfice mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineprofit, earning
- 2
masculinebenefit, advantage
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Gain ou profit. 2. Avantage que procure quelque chose 3. Droit de n’admettre une chose qu’avec certaines réserves. 4. Terre conquise dans la Gaule par les Francs et que les chefs ou princes distribuaient à leurs compagnons d’armes, dépositaires de la potestas sur un territoire donné.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of bénéfice
- bénéfices plural
- bénef alternative clipping
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce bénéfice?
- /be.ne.fis/
- /bɛ̃nifis/
- \be.ne.fis\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to bénéfice
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bénéfice in French?
bénéfice appears 21 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).