bienséance
\bjɛ̃.se.ɑ̃s\
The verdict
“bienséance” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #36,723 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #36,723
- frequency rank, French
- 10
- letters
- 15
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Convenance de ce qui se dit ou se fait avec ce qui est dû aux personnes, à l’âge, au sexe, à la condition, et avec les usages reçus, les mœurs publiques, le temps, le lieu, etc. Qui correspond à l'...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bienséance |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bjɛ̃.se.ɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #36,723 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “bienséance” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for bienséance is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bjɛ̃.se.ɑ̃s\. Corpus data places it at rank #36,723 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Convenance de ce qui se dit ou se fait avec ce qui est dû aux personnes, à l’âge, au sexe, à la condition, et avec les usages reçus, les mœurs publiques, le temps, le lieu, etc. Qui correspond à l'...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for bienséance, with forms such as "bbienséance", "beinséance", and "biennséance". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is bienséance, spelled B-I-E-N-S-É-A-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Convenance de ce qui se dit ou se fait avec ce qui est dû aux personnes, à l’âge, au sexe, à la condition, et avec les usages reçus, les mœurs publiques, le temps, le lieu, etc. Qui correspond à l'idée qu'un groupe social se fait de la morale, du bien, du beau et de l'honnête.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbienséance,beinséance,biennséance,biensaénce,bienseance,biensséance,bienséacne,bienséancce,bienséanec,bienséannce,biensénace,bienésance,biesnéance,bineséance,ibenséance
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bienséance - 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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Using “bienséance”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is B-I-E-N-S-É-A-N-C-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \bjɛ̃.se.ɑ̃s\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.