beaut
/bjut/noun, adjective
beaut is spelled B-E-A-U-T: 5 letters. It appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 49,368th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, beaut means “Something or someone that is physically attractive” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of beaut is beauts.
How many letters and syllables are in beaut?
| Letters | 5: B-E-A-U-T |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 3 million words; the 49,368th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Sounds like | |
| Rhymes with |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is beaut?
Beaut appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 49,368th 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).
How do you pronounce beaut?
- UK /bjuːt/
- US /bjut/
- /bjʉt/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-beaut.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with beaut
Sounds like: butte (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with beaut?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as beaut from its last stressed vowel (/ut/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of beaut
- beauts plural
- beauter comparative
- beautest superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does beaut mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
informalSomething or someone that is physically attractive.
That new car of yours is a real beaut.
- 2
informalSomething that is a remarkable example of its type.
adjective
- 1
AustraliainformalBeautiful, splendid.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does beaut come from?
Either a back-formation from beauty or a clipping of thereof.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).