Bête
[bɛːt]
The verdict
“Bête” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 4
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Einsatz (meist das Geld), den ein Kartenspieler verloren hat
Corpus desk
Index DE-bete · Bête · German
Bête · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bête |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [bɛːt] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Bête“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Bête is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [bɛːt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Einsatz (meist das Geld), den ein Kartenspieler verloren hat".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Bête, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Bête, spelled B-Ê-T-E.
Definition
- 1Einsatz (meist das Geld), den ein Kartenspieler verloren hat
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.