bénins
\be.nɛ̃\
The verdict
“bénins” is uncommon French (frequency #59,856 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,856
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de bénin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-benins · bénins · French
bénins · rank #59,856 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,856
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Béliveau
Nearest frequency peer: Béliveau (-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 « bénins »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- BSD
BSD
40,148 corpus weight
- Béjart
Béjart
40,147 corpus weight
- Béliveau
Béliveau
40,146 corpus weight
- bénins
bénins
40,145 corpus weight
- cabotage
cabotage
40,144 corpus weight
- cabral
cabral
40,143 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bénins » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bénins |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \be.nɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #59,856 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bénins » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bénins is uncommon French at frequency #59,856 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \be.nɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de bénin.".
bénins doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is bénins, spelled B-É-N-I-N-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de bénin.
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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