bénévolent
\be.ne.vɔ.lɑ̃\
The verdict
“bénévolent” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui fait preuve de bienveillance, de bonté indulgente.
Corpus desk
Index FR-benevolent · bénévolent · French
bénévolent · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bénévolent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \be.ne.vɔ.lɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
bénévolent is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \be.ne.vɔ.lɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui fait preuve de bienveillance, de bonté indulgente.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for bénévolent, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is bénévolent, spelled B-É-N-É-V-O-L-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui fait preuve de bienveillance, de bonté indulgente.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bénévolent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] on forma un fonds destiné à procurer des pommes de terre et autres provisions indispensables, aux prisonniers pauvres et à leurs familles, et l’on trouve à toutes les portes, des boites où les personnes bénévolentes peuvent jeter leurs contributions volontaires pour ajouter à ce fonds.
Ce sont des gendarmes de zone rurale, se dit, bénévolent, Jasselin. Habilités à verbaliser un excès de vitesse, une fraude minime à la carte bleue.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.