bienveillant
\bjɛ̃.vɛ.jɑ̃\
The verdict
“bienveillant” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,083. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,083
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a de la bienveillance ou qui marque de la bienveillance.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bienveillant · bienveillant · French
bienveillant · rank #17,083 · 16 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,083
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bicyclette
Nearest frequency peer: bicyclette (-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 « bienveillant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- baril
baril
82,921 corpus weight
- beautiful
beautiful
82,920 corpus weight
- bicyclette
bicyclette
82,919 corpus weight
- bienveillant
bienveillant
82,918 corpus weight
- biscuit
biscuit
82,917 corpus weight
- cake
cake
82,916 corpus weight
What this shows « bienveillant » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bienveillant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \bjɛ̃.vɛ.jɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #17,083 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bienveillant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around bienveillant (IPA \bjɛ̃.vɛ.jɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #17,083 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui a de la bienveillance ou qui marque de la bienveillance.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for bienveillant, with forms such as "bbienveillant", "beinveillant", and "bienevillant". 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. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "bienveillante", "bienveillants", "bienveillance", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is bienveillant, spelled B-I-E-N-V-E-I-L-L-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui a de la bienveillance ou qui marque de la bienveillance.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bienveillant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand le choix bienveillant d’un écrivain célèbre m’a désigné pour occuper passagèrement cette chaire, […], je n’ai pu songer à vous rendre quelque chose des improvisations pour moi inimitables, auxquelles il vous avait accoutumés.
Au début de son pontificat, il s’était, il est vrai, montré bienveillant, moins par générosité naturelle, que dans le dessein de favoriser la conversion des juifs.
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbienveillant
- beinveillant
- bienevillant
- biennveillant
- bienveilalnt
- bienveilant
- bienveillannt
- bienveillantt
- bienveillatn
- bienveillnat
- bienvelilant
- bienviellant
- bienvveillant
- bievneillant
- bineveillant
- ibenveillant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bienveillant - 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "bienveillant"?
What does "bienveillant" mean?
What words are commonly confused with "bienveillant"?
How do you pronounce "bienveillant"?
What language does "bienveillant" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "bienveillant", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (16 here; floor ≥5).