# Beatty vs Bette

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### Beatty
*name · IPA /ˈbi.ɾi/ · frequency rank #22,587*
A surname.

### Bette
*name · IPA /bɛt/ · frequency rank #23,760*
A variant of Betty, a diminutive of the female given name Elizabeth.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/vs/beatty-vs-bette