bienfaitrice
\bjɛ̃.fɛ.tʁis\
The verdict
“bienfaitrice” is uncommon French (frequency #64,276 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,276
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celle qui a fait quelque bien, qui a rendu quelque service ou accordé quelque grâce.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bienfaitrice · bienfaitrice · French
bienfaitrice · rank #64,276 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,276
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bibeau
Nearest frequency peer: Bibeau (-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 « bienfaitrice »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- beurrer
beurrer
35,727 corpus weight
- Bibeau
Bibeau
35,726 corpus weight
- bienfaitrice
bienfaitrice
35,725 corpus weight
- bipède
bipède
35,724 corpus weight
- bizness
bizness
35,723 corpus weight
- blasphèmes
blasphèmes
35,722 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bienfaitrice » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bienfaitrice |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bjɛ̃.fɛ.tʁis\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #64,276 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bienfaitrice » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bienfaitrice is uncommon French at frequency #64,276 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bjɛ̃.fɛ.tʁis\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Celle qui a fait quelque bien, qui a rendu quelque service ou accordé quelque grâce.".
bienfaitrice doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is bienfaitrice, spelled B-I-E-N-F-A-I-T-R-I-C-E.
Definition
- 1Celle qui a fait quelque bien, qui a rendu quelque service ou accordé quelque grâce.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bienfaitrice appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Or cette bienfaitrice donnait aussi l’hospitalité à un certain Paul originaire d’Antioche et considéré comme hérétique.
Leur bienfaitrice, quant à elle, extirpa une flasque d'une poche intérieure de sa veste, dont elle but une rasade.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).