Benhamou
The verdict
“Benhamou” is uncommon French (frequency #79,976 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,976
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-benhamou · Benhamou · French
Benhamou · rank #79,976 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,976
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bees
Nearest frequency peer: bees (-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 « Benhamou »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- baveuse
baveuse
20,028 corpus weight
- bees
bees
20,026 corpus weight
- Benhamou
Benhamou
20,025 corpus weight
- bergeries
bergeries
20,023 corpus weight
- bernoise
bernoise
20,022 corpus weight
- Bertier
Bertier
20,021 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Benhamou » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Benhamou |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #79,976 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Benhamou » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Benhamou is uncommon French at frequency #79,976 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Benhamou in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Benhamou, spelled B-E-N-H-A-M-O-U.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Benhamou appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est pourquoi « il faut veiller à bien utiliser l’intelligence artificielle », alerte Salima Benhamou, économiste du travail chez France Stratégie, pour qui cet outil fera partie intégrante de notre environnement de travail dans les années à venir, notamment via l’intelligence artificielle générative, comme ChatGPT.
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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