Benfica

name

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The verdict

“Benfica” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,216. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#19,216
frequency rank, French
4,251
“B” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Quartier de Lisbonne.

Corpus desk

Index FR-benfica · Benfica · French

Benfica · rank #19,216 · 10 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #19,216
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,251
  • PHOTO-FINISH bavarois

Nearest frequency peer: bavarois (-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 « Benfica »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « Benfica » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

Benfica vs bénéfice
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for Benfica
PropertyValue
HeadwordBenfica
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters7
Frequency rank#19,216
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Benfica »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.Benficase place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « bavarois » (#19,215), « bide » (#19,217), « balise » (#19,214). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « Benfica » est au #19,216. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around Benfica, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #19,216 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Benfica, with forms such as "bbenfica", "befnica", and "benfcia". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "bénéfice", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 Benfica, spelled B-E-N-F-I-C-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    Quartier de Lisbonne.
  2. 2
    Club de football de Lisbonne.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how Benfica appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Pereira fait preuve de trop d’engagement sur un tacle et, déjà averti, le capitaine de Benfica doit quitter ses partenaires pour un second geste.
  2. Face aux Lisboètes, les Rouge et Bleu ont une nouvelle fois bégayé leur football, comme face à Brest, Haïfa, Nice, Benfica à l’aller et Reims samedi dernier, ce qui commence quand même à dégager une certaine tendance.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • bbenfica
  • befnica
  • benfcia
  • benffica
  • benfiac
  • benficca
  • benifca
  • bennfica
  • bnefica
  • ebnfica

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Benfica - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

bbenfica1befnica2benfcia2benffica1benfiac2benficca1benifca2bennfica1
Edit distance from "Benfica"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Benfica"?
"Benfica" is spelled B-E-N-F-I-C-A.
What does "Benfica" mean?
As a proper noun, "Benfica" means: Quartier de Lisbonne.
What words are commonly confused with "Benfica"?
"Benfica" is commonly confused with "bénéfice". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "Benfica" come from?
"Benfica" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Benfica", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list