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beamwidth

noun

beamwidth is spelled B-E-A-M-W-I-D-T-H: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 59 million words in written English, the 240,237th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, beamwidth means “The width (or the angle) of a beam of radiation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of beamwidth is beamwidths.

How many letters and syllables are in beamwidth?

Letters9: B-E-A-M-W-I-D-T-H
In writingabout once in every 59 million words; the 240,237th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is beamwidth?

Beamwidth appears about once in every 59 million words in written English, the 240,237th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Forms of beamwidth

  • beamwidths plural
  • beam width

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does beamwidth mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    The width (or the angle) of a beam of radiation

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does beamwidth come from?

From beam + width.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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