bénissement

noun

The verdict

“bénissement” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
11
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de bénir ; bénédiction.

Corpus desk

Index FR-benissement · bénissement · French

bénissement · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "B" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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.

Key facts for bénissement
PropertyValue
Headwordbénissement
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « bénissement » en français

bénissementreste hors des 100.000 mots français les plus fréquents, dans la longue queue du vocabulaire technique, archaïque ou rare, là où le doute d'orthographe frappe.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

bénissement is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Action de bénir ; bénédiction.".

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for bénissement, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 bénissement, spelled B-É-N-I-S-S-E-M-E-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action de bénir ; bénédiction.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. C'était beau, le bénissement des ânes et des vaches au moyen âge.

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "bénissement"?
"bénissement" is spelled B-É-N-I-S-S-E-M-E-N-T.
What does "bénissement" mean?
As a noun, "bénissement" means: Action de bénir ; bénédiction.
What language does "bénissement" come from?
"bénissement" 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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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list