Benin
The verdict
“Benin” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #33,294. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,294
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Benim
Corpus desk
Index PT-benin · Benin · Portuguese
Benin · rank #33,294 · 7 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,294
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH bells
Nearest frequency peer: bells (-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.
Pares de rank junto ao íman ortográfico “Benin”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- axe
axe
66,716 corpus weight
- azulejo
azulejo
66,714 corpus weight
- bells
bells
66,708 corpus weight
- Benin
Benin
66,707 corpus weight
- BIOS
BIOS
66,705 corpus weight
- bleu
bleu
66,703 corpus weight
What this shows “Benin” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.
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 | Benin |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #33,294 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “Benin”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Benin, anoun. Corpus frequency is #33,294 among 840 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Benim".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Benin, with forms such as "bbenin", "beinn", and "beninn". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "bin", "Benta", "biênio", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is Benin, spelled B-E-N-I-N.
Definition
- 1Benim
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Benin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Stolicą Beninu jest Porto-Novo.
Siedzibą rządu Beninu jest Kotonu.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbenin
- beinn
- beninn
- benni
- bennin
- bnein
- ebnin
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Benin - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).