bienveillance

\bjɛ̃.vɛ.jɑ̃s\

/\bjɛ̃.vɛ.jɑ̃s\/ noun

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The verdict

“bienveillance” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,111. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#12,111
frequency rank, French
4,251
“B” headwords
17
tracked misspellings
3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Motivation à respecter autrui et agir pour son bien.

Corpus desk

Index FR-bienveillance · bienveillance · French

bienveillance · rank #12,111 · 17 variants · 3 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #12,111
  • LEN-MEGA 13 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 17 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,251
  • PHOTO-FINISH Beyrouth

Nearest frequency peer: Beyrouth (-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 « bienveillance »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « bienveillance » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

bienveillance vs bienveillant
85% similar
bienveillance vs bienveillante
92% similar
bienveillance vs bienveillants
85% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for bienveillance
PropertyValue
Headwordbienveillance
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\bjɛ̃.vɛ.jɑ̃s\
Letters13
Frequency rank#12,111
Misspellings tracked17
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bienveillance »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).bienveillancese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Beyrouth » (#12,110), « bougie » (#12,112), « basculer » (#12,109). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « bienveillance » est au #12,111. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 17 spelling variants around bienveillance (IPA \bjɛ̃.vɛ.jɑ̃s\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,111 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Motivation à respecter autrui et agir pour son bien.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for bienveillance, with forms such as "bbienveillance", "beinveillance", and "bienevillance". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "bienveillant", "bienveillante", "bienveillants", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 bienveillance, spelled B-I-E-N-V-E-I-L-L-A-N-C-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Motivation à respecter autrui et agir pour son bien.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how bienveillance appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. La bienveillance consiste, résume Catherine Gueguen, « à porter sur autrui un regard aimant, compréhensif, sans jugement, en souhaitant qu’il se sente bien, et en y veillant ».
  2. Il se comportait avec autant de bienveillance à l’égard des hommes ; il était donc peu surprenant qu’on aimât généralement l’étranger, et chacun s’empressait de venir à son aide.

This word in other languages

good will(English)bondad(Español)Güte(Deutsch)benevolência(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • bbienveillance
  • beinveillance
  • bienevillance
  • biennveillance
  • bienveilalnce
  • bienveilance
  • bienveillacne
  • bienveillancce
  • bienveillanec
  • bienveillannce
  • bienveillnace
  • bienvelilance
  • bienviellance
  • bienvveillance
  • bievneillance
  • bineveillance
  • ibenveillance

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bienveillance - 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.

bbienveillance1beinveillance2bienevillance2biennveillance1bienveilalnce2bienveilance1bienveillacne2bienveillancce1
Edit distance from "bienveillance"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "bienveillance"?
"bienveillance" is spelled B-I-E-N-V-E-I-L-L-A-N-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is \bjɛ̃.vɛ.jɑ̃s\.
What does "bienveillance" mean?
As a noun, "bienveillance" means: Motivation à respecter autrui et agir pour son bien.
What words are commonly confused with "bienveillance"?
"bienveillance" is commonly confused with "bienveillant", "bienveillante", "bienveillants". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "bienveillance"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "bienveillance" is \bjɛ̃.vɛ.jɑ̃s\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "bienveillance" come from?
"bienveillance" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "bienveillance", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

certification#12,123affrontements#12,093connaissaient#12,131contamination#12,134

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).

différencier17 variantsenthousiaste17 variantsspéculation17 variantsflexibilité17 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list