Bénouville
\be.nu.vil\
The verdict
“Bénouville” is uncommon French (frequency #91,480 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,480
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département du Calvados.
Corpus desk
Index FR-benouville · Bénouville · French
Bénouville · rank #91,480 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,480
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bétonnière
Nearest frequency peer: bétonnière (+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 « Bénouville »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- businessmen
businessmen
8,524 corpus weight
- bussi
bussi
8,523 corpus weight
- Bénouville
Bénouville
8,521 corpus weight
- bétonnière
bétonnière
8,520 corpus weight
- cabrer
cabrer
8,518 corpus weight
- Cadarache
Cadarache
8,517 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Bénouville » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bénouville |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \be.nu.vil\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #91,480 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Bénouville » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Bénouville is uncommon French at frequency #91,480 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \be.nu.vil\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Bénouville, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Bénouville, spelled B-É-N-O-U-V-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département du Calvados.
- 2Commune française, située dans le département de la Seine-Maritime.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Bénouville appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’église de Bénouville sonna dix heures.
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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