bien entendu
\bjɛ̃.n‿ɑ̃.tɑ̃.dy\
The verdict
“bien entendu” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Naturellement ; évidemment ; bien sûr.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bien-entendu · bien entendu · French
bien entendu · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bien entendu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \bjɛ̃.n‿ɑ̃.tɑ̃.dy\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
bien entendu is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadverb, transcribed \bjɛ̃.n‿ɑ̃.tɑ̃.dy\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Naturellement ; évidemment ; bien sûr.".
No misspelling variants are generated for bien entendu in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is bien entendu, spelled B-I-E-N- -E-N-T-E-N-D-U.
Definition
- 1Naturellement ; évidemment ; bien sûr.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bien entendu appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Puis ce fut le Salon de l'Aéronautique. La recordwoman du monde est, bien entendu, la fée du stand Caudron-Renault.
Tout le monde viendra me voir pendu, Sauf les aveugles, bien entendu.
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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.