Benidorm
\be.ni.dɔʁm\
The verdict
“Benidorm” is uncommon French (frequency #78,178 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,178
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune d’Espagne, située dans la province d’Alicante et la Communauté valencienne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-benidorm · Benidorm · French
Benidorm · rank #78,178 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,178
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Belloubet
Nearest frequency peer: Belloubet (-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 « Benidorm »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- belladone
belladone
21,826 corpus weight
- bellas
bellas
21,825 corpus weight
- Belloubet
Belloubet
21,824 corpus weight
- Benidorm
Benidorm
21,823 corpus weight
- beti
beti
21,822 corpus weight
- bigarré
bigarré
21,819 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Benidorm » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Benidorm |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \be.ni.dɔʁm\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #78,178 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Benidorm » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Benidorm is uncommon French at frequency #78,178 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \be.ni.dɔʁm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune d’Espagne, située dans la province d’Alicante et la Communauté valencienne.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Benidorm, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Benidorm, spelled B-E-N-I-D-O-R-M.
Definition
- 1Commune d’Espagne, située dans la province d’Alicante et la Communauté valencienne.
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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