benoît
\bə.nwa\
The verdict
“benoît” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,212. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,212
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Béni, bienheureux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-benoit · benoît · French
benoît · rank #4,212 · 9 variants · 16 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,212
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH basket
Nearest frequency peer: basket (-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 « benoît »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- baie
baie
95,792 corpus weight
- bains
bains
95,791 corpus weight
- basket
basket
95,790 corpus weight
- benoît
benoît
95,789 corpus weight
- bible
bible
95,788 corpus weight
- Californie
Californie
95,787 corpus weight
What this shows « benoît » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | benoît |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \bə.nwa\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #4,212 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « benoît »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around benoît (IPA \bə.nwa\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #4,212 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for benoît, with forms such as "bbenoît", "bennoît", and "benoit". 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 16 confusable-pair relationships, "boit", "bent", "besoin", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 benoît, spelled B-E-N-O-Î-T.
Definition
- 1Béni, bienheureux.
- 2Onctueux, de façon hypocrite et en se donnant un air vertueux ou supérieur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how benoît appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pendant cette benoîte pause, la voix d’un conteur semble toujours délicieuse à nos sens engourdis, elle en favorise le bonheur négatif.
[…] et le chef en or massif de monseigneur saint Cromadaire, premier apôtre de Vervignole et benoît patron de Trinqueballe.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbenoît
- bennoît
- benoit
- benotî
- benoîtt
- benîot
- beonît
- bneoît
- ebnoît
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of benoît - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "benoît", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).