bénir
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#29,677
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
bénir is aFrenchverb. It means: Consacrer au culte, au service divin avec certaines cérémonies. Pronounced \be.niʁ\. Often confused with bir and ber.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bénir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \be.niʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #29,677 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for bénir is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \be.niʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #29,677 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for bénir, with forms such as "bbénir", "benir", and "bnéir". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bir", "ber", "Benz", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is bénir, spelled B-É-N-I-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Consacrer au culte, au service divin avec certaines cérémonies.
- 2Installer un abbé ou une abbesse, dans leur dignité avec certaines cérémonies et en faisant sur eux certaines prières.
- 3Faire certaines prières pour attirer la grâce divine sur des choses.
- 4Appeler la protection céleste sur des personnes. Il se dit en particulier pour les pères et les mères appelant cette protection sur leurs enfants.
- 5Faire sur les personnes le signe de la croix, en leur souhaitant la grâce divine.
- 6Consacrer une union, un mariage, suivant le rite religieux.
- 7Dire du bien de quelqu'un et lui vouloir du bien.
- 8Louer, glorifier, remercier avec des sentiments de vénération et de reconnaissance.
- 9Se féliciter d’une chose, en se la rappelant par un agréable souvenir.
- 10Combler de faveurs, faire prospérer, en parlant de Dieu, du destin, etc.
- 11Asperger abondamment.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbénir,benir,bnéir,béinr,bénirr,bénnir,bénri,ébnir
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for bénir
Misspelling Variants of "bénir"
Frequency rank: #29,677 in French
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Nearby French words
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