beauteous
/ˈbjuːtɪəs/
"beauteous" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“beauteous” is uncommon English (frequency #80,234 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,234
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - beautiful.
Corpus desk
Index EN-beauteous · beauteous · English
beauteous · rank #80,234 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,234
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH beatable
Nearest frequency peer: beatable (-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 “beauteous”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Basse
Basse
19,771 corpus weight
- batiste
batiste
19,769 corpus weight
- beatable
beatable
19,768 corpus weight
- beauteous
beauteous
19,767 corpus weight
- beeper
beeper
19,765 corpus weight
- Benjie
Benjie
19,764 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “beauteous” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | beauteous |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈbjuːtɪəs/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #80,234 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “beauteous” in English
Rare enough to double-check
beauteous is uncommon English at frequency #80,234 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈbjuːtɪəs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "beautiful.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for beauteous in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English beautevous, bewteose, beautuous, boyteous, beuteus, beuteowse, bewtyvows, equivalent to beauty + -ous and/or beauty + -eous. The correct English form is beauteous, spelled B-E-A-U-T-E-O-U-S.
Definition
- 1beautiful.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how beauteous appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
VVhy didſt thou promiſe ſuch a beautious day, And make me trauaile forth without my cloake, To let bace cloudes ore-take me in my way, Hiding thy brau'ry in their rotten ſmoke.
O wonder! / How many goodly creatures are there heere? / How beauteous mankinde is? O braue new world / That has ſuch people in't.
Etymology
From Middle English beautevous, bewteose, beautuous, boyteous, beuteus, beuteowse, bewtyvows, equivalent to beauty + -ous and/or beauty + -eous.
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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