Bengalais
\bɛ̃.ɡa.lɛ\
The verdict
“Bengalais” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Habitant de l’ancienne région du Bengale en Asie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bengalais · Bengalais · French
Bengalais · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 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 | Bengalais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɛ̃.ɡa.lɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Bengalais » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Bengalais is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \bɛ̃.ɡa.lɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for Bengalais in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, 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 Bengalais, spelled B-E-N-G-A-L-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Habitant de l’ancienne région du Bengale en Asie.
- 2Habitant de l’État du Bengale occidental.
- 3Par métonymie, habitant du Bangladesh.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Bengalais appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les Bengalais, un des peuples les plus nombreux de cette famille ; ils forment la plus grande partie de la population du Bengale et une fraction de celle des pays limitrophes.
Mais le poids presque intolérable des réfugiés empêche la population de bénéficier de ce dynamisme économique, des milliers de Bengalais continuant à arriver chaque jour du Bangladesh voisin.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.