béni-oui-oui
\be.ni.wi.wi\
The verdict
“béni-oui-oui” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne servile, qui approuve systématiquement la proposition d'une autorité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-beni-oui-oui · béni-oui-oui · French
béni-oui-oui · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-8 8 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 | béni-oui-oui |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \be.ni.wi.wi\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
béni-oui-oui is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \be.ni.wi.wi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Personne servile, qui approuve systématiquement la proposition d'une autorité.".
béni-oui-oui doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is béni-oui-oui, spelled B-É-N-I---O-U-I---O-U-I.
Definition
- 1Personne servile, qui approuve systématiquement la proposition d'une autorité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how béni-oui-oui appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces hommes [les Algériens de 1954] ne pouvaient rester des « béni-oui-oui », des « cireurs de chaussures », l'idée de l'indépendance étant une force irrésistible.
À rebrousse-poil des sentiers battus, Onfray s’attire naturellement la haine des béni-oui-oui de toutes les chapelles.
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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.