Beaune
/bon/
"beaune" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Beaune” is uncommon English (frequency #79,291 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,291
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A commune in Côte-d'Or department, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, eastern France, the wine capital of Burgundy located between Paris and Geneva.
Corpus desk
Index EN-beaune · Beaune · English
Beaune · rank #79,291 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,291
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH Bechdel
Nearest frequency peer: Bechdel (+1 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 “Beaune”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- ballas
ballas
20,714 corpus weight
- barque
barque
20,713 corpus weight
- Beaune
Beaune
20,710 corpus weight
- Bechdel
Bechdel
20,709 corpus weight
- beery
beery
20,707 corpus weight
- Beeson
Beeson
20,706 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Beaune” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Beaune |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /bon/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #79,291 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Beaune” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Beaune is uncommon English at frequency #79,291 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /bon/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A commune in Côte-d'Or department, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, eastern France, the wine capital of Burgundy located between Paris and Geneva.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Beaune, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is Beaune, spelled B-E-A-U-N-E.
Definition
- 1A commune in Côte-d'Or department, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, eastern France, the wine capital of Burgundy located between Paris and Geneva.
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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