bento
\bɛn.to\
The verdict
“bento” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,328. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,328
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Repas traditionnel japonais disposé dans une boite compartimentée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bento · bento · French
bento · rank #44,328 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,328
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bavards
Nearest frequency peer: bavards (-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 « bento »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Barnabé
Barnabé
55,677 corpus weight
- Barnier
Barnier
55,676 corpus weight
- barèmes
barèmes
55,675 corpus weight
- bavards
bavards
55,674 corpus weight
- bento
bento
55,673 corpus weight
- bibelots
bibelots
55,670 corpus weight
What this shows « bento » 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 | bento |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɛn.to\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #44,328 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bento »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around bento (IPA \bɛn.to\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #44,328 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for bento, with forms such as "bbento", "bennto", and "benot". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bet", "best", "bêta", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 bento, spelled B-E-N-T-O.
Definition
- 1Repas traditionnel japonais disposé dans une boite compartimentée.
- 2Coffret compartimenté contenant ce repas.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bento appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le bento est un petit repas composé de riz bouilli et d’algues, que l’on vend dans des boites de bois blanc.
Tous les matins, Sunja marchait jusqu’au poste de police pour leur remettre trois onigiri d’orge et de millet. S’il restait un peu d’argent pour un œuf de poule, elle le faisait bouillir puis mariner dans du shouyu pour agrémenter le modeste bento d’Isak.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbento
- bennto
- benot
- bentto
- betno
- bneto
- ebnto
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bento - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).