binet
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#39,181
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
binet is aFrenchnoun. It means: Petit plateau métallique rapporté sur le haut du chandelier, qui porte une pointe en son centre pour y piquer et mettre à finir de brûler les bouts de bougie non complètement consumés. Pronounced \bi.ne\. Often confused with bit and bite.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | binet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bi.ne\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #39,181 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for binet is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bi.ne\. Corpus data places it at rank #39,181 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for binet, with forms such as "bbinet", "bient", and "binett". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bit", "bite", "bing", and more, 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 binet, spelled B-I-N-E-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Petit plateau métallique rapporté sur le haut du chandelier, qui porte une pointe en son centre pour y piquer et mettre à finir de brûler les bouts de bougie non complètement consumés.
- 2(Par isomorphisme avec le sens précédent) Porte-bougie composé d’un petit vase monté sur un petit plateau : tous les luminaires de cette époque adoptant cette disposition (petits bougeoirs, chandeliers de boîte à jeux), et les porte-lumières des lustres, des appliques, des candélabres et des girandoles se trouvent parfois nommés ainsi.
- 3Chandelier permettant le réglage de la hauteur de la chandelle, pour brûler la chandelle jusqu’au bout.
- 4Fond de chandelier mû par un ressort dans le corps du luminaire.
- 5(Dernier quart du XXᵉ siècle) Petit vase qui contient la base de la bougie.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbinet,bient,binett,binnet,binte,bniet,ibnet
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for binet
Misspelling Variants of "binet"
Frequency rank: #39,181 in French
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