beano
/ˈbiːnəʊ/
"beano" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“beano” is uncommon English (frequency #65,720 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,720
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A beanfeast; any noisy celebration, a party.
Corpus desk
Index EN-beano · beano · English
beano · rank #65,720 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,720
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH Beelzebub
Nearest frequency peer: Beelzebub (+2 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “beano”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- banqueting
banqueting
34,287 corpus weight
- barest
barest
34,286 corpus weight
- barrelled
barrelled
34,284 corpus weight
- beano
beano
34,281 corpus weight
- Beelzebub
Beelzebub
34,279 corpus weight
- Bega
Bega
34,278 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “beano” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | beano |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈbiːnəʊ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #65,720 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “beano” in English
Rare enough to double-check
beano is uncommon English at frequency #65,720 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈbiːnəʊ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for beano, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: Clipping of beanfeast + -o. The correct English form is beano, spelled B-E-A-N-O.
Definition
- 1A beanfeast; any noisy celebration, a party.
- 2Any home-made gas or indigestion remedy.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how beano appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
You gas like a kid at a Sunday School beano.
For all she knew, Upjohn might have got the holiday spirit and be planning to remain burning up the boulevards indefinitely, and of course nothing gives a big beano a black eye more surely than the failure to show up of the principal speaker.
Etymology
Clipping of beanfeast + -o.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).