beast with two backs
"beast-with-two-backs" is a 17-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“beast with two backs” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Two people united in sexual intercourse in the missionary position.
Corpus desk
Index EN-beast-with-two-backs · beast with two backs · English
beast with two backs · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 20 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | beast with two backs |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “beast with two backs” in English
Rare enough to double-check
beast with two backs is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Two people united in sexual intercourse in the missionary position.".
No misspelling variants are generated for beast with two backs in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: First attested in English by William Shakespeare, see quotations. Supposedly a calque of French la beste à deux doz (in modern French, la bête à deux dos) from Gargantua and Pantagruel, 1534, by François Rabelais. The correct English form is beast with two backs, spelled B-E-A-S-T- -W-I-T-H- -T-W-O- -B-A-C-K-S.
Definition
- 1Two people united in sexual intercourse in the missionary position.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how beast with two backs appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I am one ſir, that come to tell you, your daughter, and the Moore, are now making the Beaſt with two backs.
[H]e remained one of the few boys of his year with whom Adrian had never made the beast with two backs, or rather with whom he had never made the beast with one back and an interestingly shaped middle, […]
Etymology
First attested in English by William Shakespeare, see quotations. Supposedly a calque of French la beste à deux doz (in modern French, la bête à deux dos) from Gargantua and Pantagruel, 1534, by François Rabelais.
Synonyms
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.