bengal
\bɛ̃.ɡal\
The verdict
“bengal” is uncommon French (frequency #86,463 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,463
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Race de chat, originaire des États-Unis, à tête triangulaire, à queue moyenne, à poil court, et à robe ressemblant à celle du chat-léopard du Bengale.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bengal · bengal · French
bengal · rank #86,463 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,463
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Belzébuth
Nearest frequency peer: Belzébuth (-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 « bengal »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bedon
bedon
13,542 corpus weight
- Belzébuth
Belzébuth
13,539 corpus weight
- bengal
bengal
13,538 corpus weight
- Bergoglio
Bergoglio
13,537 corpus weight
- bilboquet
bilboquet
13,535 corpus weight
- biplan
biplan
13,533 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bengal » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bengal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɛ̃.ɡal\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #86,463 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bengal » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bengal is uncommon French at frequency #86,463 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bɛ̃.ɡal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Race de chat, originaire des États-Unis, à tête triangulaire, à queue moyenne, à poil court, et à robe ressemblant à celle du chat-léopard du Bengale.".
bengal doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists 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 bengal, spelled B-E-N-G-A-L.
Definition
- 1Race de chat, originaire des États-Unis, à tête triangulaire, à queue moyenne, à poil court, et à robe ressemblant à celle du chat-léopard du Bengale.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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