bienvenue
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,505
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
bienvenue is anFrenchintj. It means: Formule de bienveillance ou de civilité dont on se sert à l’égard d’une personne qui arrive. Pronounced \bjɛ̃.və.ny\. It ranks #2,505 in French word frequency. Often confused with bienvenus and bienvenues.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bienvenue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Intj |
| IPA | \bjɛ̃.və.ny\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #2,505 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for bienvenue is 9 letters long, classified as anintj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bjɛ̃.və.ny\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,505 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for bienvenue, with forms such as "bbienvenue", "beinvenue", and "bienevnue". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "bienvenus", "bienvenues", "bienvenu", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is bienvenue, spelled B-I-E-N-V-E-N-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Formule de bienveillance ou de civilité dont on se sert à l’égard d’une personne qui arrive.
- 2(Calque de l’anglais welcome) Formule de réponse à un remerciement.
Synonyms
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbienvenue,beinvenue,bienevnue,biennvenue,bienveneu,bienvennue,bienveune,bienvneue,bienvvenue,bievnenue,binevenue,ibenvenue
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for bienvenue
Misspelling Variants of "bienvenue"
Frequency rank: #2,505 in French
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Nearby French words
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