Bete
German, noun
Bete is spelled B-E-T-E (4 letters) and appears 3.5 times per million words in written German, the 15,856th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bete is a German feminine noun meaning “beet; chiefly in Rote Bete” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, bete is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “artenreiches Rübengewächs, meist Rote Bete ‘rote Rübe’”.
What does Bete mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininebeet; chiefly in Rote Bete
verb
- 1
first-person singular present
- 2
singular imperative
- 3
first/third-person singular subjunctive I
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Einsatz (meist das Geld), den ein Kartenspieler verloren hat
noun: 1. artenreiches Rübengewächs, meist Rote Bete ‘rote Rübe’
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of Bete
- Beten plural
- Beete alternative
- Bêten nominative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Bete
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Bete in German?
Bete appears 3.5 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).