bénir

\be.niʁ\

/\be.niʁ\/ verb

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The verdict

“bénir” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,677. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#29,677
frequency rank, French
4,251
“B” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Consacrer au culte, au service divin avec certaines cérémonies.

Corpus desk

Index FR-benir · bénir · French

bénir · rank #29,677 · 8 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #29,677
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,251
  • PHOTO-FINISH Bélanger

Nearest frequency peer: Bélanger (-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 « bénir »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « bénir » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

bénir vs bir
60% similar
bénir vs ber
40% similar
bénir vs Benz
20% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for bénir
PropertyValue
Headwordbénir
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\be.niʁ\
Letters5
Frequency rank#29,677
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bénir »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).bénirse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Bélanger » (#29,676), « californienne » (#29,679), « brésiliennes » (#29,674). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « bénir » est au #29,677. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around bénir (IPA \be.niʁ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #29,677 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 11 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for bénir, with forms such as "bbénir", "benir", and "bnéir". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bir", "ber", "Benz", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is bénir, spelled B-É-N-I-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Consacrer au culte, au service divin avec certaines cérémonies.
  2. 2
    Installer un abbé ou une abbesse, dans leur dignité avec certaines cérémonies et en faisant sur eux certaines prières.
  3. 3
    Faire certaines prières pour attirer la grâce divine sur des choses.
  4. 4
    Appeler la protection céleste sur des personnes. Il se dit en particulier pour les pères et les mères appelant cette protection sur leurs enfants.
  5. 5
    Faire sur les personnes le signe de la croix, en leur souhaitant la grâce divine.
  6. 6
    Consacrer une union, un mariage, suivant le rite religieux.
  7. 7
    Dire du bien de quelqu'un et lui vouloir du bien.
  8. 8
    Louer, glorifier, remercier avec des sentiments de vénération et de reconnaissance.
  9. 9
    Se féliciter d’une chose, en se la rappelant par un agréable souvenir.
  10. 10
    Combler de faveurs, faire prospérer, en parlant de Dieu, du destin, etc.
  11. 11
    Asperger abondamment.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how bénir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. En 1096, le pape Urbain II vint à Carcassonne pour rétablir la paix entre Bernard Aton et les bourgeois qui s’étaient révoltés contre lui et il bénit l’église cathédrale (Saint-Nazaire),[…].
  2. Bénir une église, une chapelle, des ornements d’église, une pierre d’autel, des fonts, un cierge, etc.

Antonyms

maudire

This word in other languages

bless(English)bendecir(Español)segnen(Deutsch)abençoar(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • bbénir
  • benir
  • bnéir
  • béinr
  • bénirr
  • bénnir
  • bénri
  • ébnir

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bénir - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

bbénir1benir1bnéir2béinr2bénirr1bénnir1bénri2ébnir2
Edit distance from "bénir"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "bénir"?
"bénir" is spelled B-É-N-I-R. The IPA pronunciation is \be.niʁ\.
What does "bénir" mean?
As a verb, "bénir" means: Consacrer au culte, au service divin avec certaines cérémonies.
What words are commonly confused with "bénir"?
"bénir" is commonly confused with "bir", "ber", "Benz". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "bénir"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "bénir" is \be.niʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "bénir" come from?
"bénir" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "bénir", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

campe#29,682campo#29,683chain#29,689clins#29,695

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

Brienne8 variantsbraille8 variantsapposer8 variantscôlon8 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list