Béninois
\be.ni.nwa\
The verdict
“Béninois” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,913. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,913
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Habitant du Bénin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-beninois · Béninois · French
Béninois · rank #34,913 · 12 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,913
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bédard
Nearest frequency peer: Bédard (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Béninois »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- bâtonnets
bâtonnets
65,090 corpus weight
- Bédard
Bédard
65,089 corpus weight
- Béninois
Béninois
65,088 corpus weight
- caduque
caduque
65,087 corpus weight
- campements
campements
65,085 corpus weight
- campings
campings
65,084 corpus weight
What this shows « Béninois » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Béninois |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \be.ni.nwa\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #34,913 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Béninois »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around Béninois (IPA \be.ni.nwa\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #34,913 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Habitant du Bénin.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Béninois, with forms such as "bbéninois", "beninois", and "bnéinois". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "bernois", "Berlinois", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Béninois, spelled B-É-N-I-N-O-I-S.
Definition
- 1Habitant du Bénin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Béninois appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quelque vaste que soit ce Royaume [de Benin], le plus grand de toute la Guinée, puisqu’il renferme nombre d’autres petits Royaumes qui sont tributaires du Roi de Benin […] Les Beninois, mieux civilisés que les autres Nations de la Guinée, ne se contenteroient pas de nos petites merceries.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbéninois
- beninois
- bnéinois
- béinnois
- béninios
- béninnois
- béninoiss
- béninosi
- bénionis
- bénninois
- bénniois
- ébninois
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Béninois - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).