bienfaisance
\bjɛ̃.fə.zɑ̃s\
The verdict
“bienfaisance” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,059. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,059
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Inclination à faire du bien aux autres, pratique des bienfaits.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bienfaisance · bienfaisance · French
bienfaisance · rank #20,059 · 17 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,059
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Belkacem
Nearest frequency peer: Belkacem (-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 « bienfaisance »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- barrette
barrette
79,945 corpus weight
- bear
bear
79,944 corpus weight
- Belkacem
Belkacem
79,943 corpus weight
- bienfaisance
bienfaisance
79,942 corpus weight
- biennale
biennale
79,941 corpus weight
- biologiste
biologiste
79,940 corpus weight
What this shows « bienfaisance » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bienfaisance |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bjɛ̃.fə.zɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #20,059 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bienfaisance »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around bienfaisance (IPA \bjɛ̃.fə.zɑ̃s\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,059 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for bienfaisance, with forms such as "bbienfaisance", "beinfaisance", and "biefnaisance". 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. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is bienfaisance, spelled B-I-E-N-F-A-I-S-A-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Inclination à faire du bien aux autres, pratique des bienfaits.
- 2Bien que l’on fait dans un intérêt social.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bienfaisance appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La bienfaisance fut sa plus belle vertu. Acte de bienfaisance. Une bienfaisance éclairée, active. Il n’eut point à se repentir de sa bienfaisance envers eux.
Le riche, quand il s'associe à une œuvre de bienfaisance, ne donne souvent que son superflu. Le pauvre donne ce dont il a lui-même besoin, et ne craint pas de souffrir pour apaiser une souffrance.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbienfaisance
- beinfaisance
- biefnaisance
- bienafisance
- bienfaiasnce
- bienfaisacne
- bienfaisancce
- bienfaisanec
- bienfaisannce
- bienfaisnace
- bienfaissance
- bienfasiance
- bienffaisance
- bienfiasance
- biennfaisance
- binefaisance
- ibenfaisance
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bienfaisance - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).