bengali
\bɛ̃.ɡa.li\
The verdict
“bengali” is uncommon French (frequency #58,449 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,449
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif au Bengale, à ses ressortissants ou à leur langue.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bengali · bengali · French
bengali · rank #58,449 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,449
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Berton
Nearest frequency peer: Berton (+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 « bengali »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- basculent
basculent
41,557 corpus weight
- battery
battery
41,556 corpus weight
- bengali
bengali
41,552 corpus weight
- Berton
Berton
41,551 corpus weight
- Besnard
Besnard
41,550 corpus weight
- bicycle
bicycle
41,548 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bengali » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bengali |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \bɛ̃.ɡa.li\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #58,449 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bengali » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bengali is uncommon French at frequency #58,449 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \bɛ̃.ɡa.li\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif au Bengale, à ses ressortissants ou à leur langue.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for bengali, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is bengali, spelled B-E-N-G-A-L-I.
Definition
- 1Relatif au Bengale, à ses ressortissants ou à leur langue.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bengali appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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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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