bénissent
\be.nis\
The verdict
“bénissent” is uncommon French (frequency #72,145 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,145
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de bénir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-benissent · bénissent · French
bénissent · rank #72,145 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,145
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Béotie
Nearest frequency peer: Béotie (+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 « bénissent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- burrito
burrito
27,860 corpus weight
- butiner
butiner
27,859 corpus weight
- bénissent
bénissent
27,856 corpus weight
- Béotie
Béotie
27,855 corpus weight
- cadrages
cadrages
27,854 corpus weight
- caftan
caftan
27,852 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bénissent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bénissent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \be.nis\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #72,145 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bénissent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bénissent is uncommon French at frequency #72,145 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \be.nis\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for bénissent in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is bénissent, spelled B-É-N-I-S-S-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de bénir.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif imparfait de bénir.
- 3Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent de 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.
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