Benoît
/bə.nwa/.
The verdict
“Benoît” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #76,127 among 840 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,127
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Benedito, Bento
Corpus desk
Index PT-benoit · Benoît · Portuguese
Benoît · rank #76,127 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,127
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH benfeitoria
Nearest frequency peer: benfeitoria (-2 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.
Ranks da cauda longa perto de “Benoît”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- beiço
beiço
23,880 corpus weight
- benfeitoria
benfeitoria
23,876 corpus weight
- Benoît
Benoît
23,874 corpus weight
- bisbilhotar
bisbilhotar
23,870 corpus weight
- botica
botica
23,859 corpus weight
- bugiganga
bugiganga
23,854 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “Benoît” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Benoît |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /bə.nwa/. |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #76,127 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “Benoît” em português
Rare enough to double-check
Benoît is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #76,127 among 840 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /bə.nwa/.. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Benedito, Bento".
No misspelling variants are generated for Benoît in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is Benoît, spelled B-E-N-O-Î-T.
Definition
- 1Benedito, Bento
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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