beautiful
beau·ti·ful/ˈbju.tɪ.fəl/adjective, noun
beautiful is spelled B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L, 3 syllables: beau·ti·ful. The wrong spelling people search most is beutiful: about 550 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 40 of all searches for the word. Beautiful is an adjective meaning “Possessing beauty, impressing the eye; attractive”.
How many letters and syllables are in beautiful?
| Letters | 9: B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: beau·ti·ful |
| In writing | 166 times per million words; the 611th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 4; the most searched, beutiful, about 550 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell beautiful?
Beautiful is spelled B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L. 4 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 21 of the searches for beautiful in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is beautiful?
Beautiful appears 166 times per million words in written English, the 611th 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 beautiful?
- UK /ˈbjuːtɪ.fəl/
- UK /ˈbjuːtɪ.fʊl/
- US /ˈbju.tɪ.fəl/
Beautiful has 3 syllables, split beau·ti·ful in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-uk-beautiful.ogg, En-us-beautiful.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of beautiful
- more beautiful comparative
- most beautiful superlative
- beautifuls plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does beautiful mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Possessing beauty, impressing the eye; attractive.
Anyone who has ever met her thought she was absolutely beautiful.
- 2
Used emphatically or ironically, after the noun it qualifies.
the house beautiful
- 3
That one likes very much.
He was a beautiful person; he would drop everything to help you.
- 4
Affording pleasure to any of the senses, especially that of hearing; delightful.
Beethoven's most beautiful sonata
- 5
Impressing with charm in an intellectual or moral way, through inherent suitability or elegance.
The skater performed a beautiful axel.
noun
- 1
Someone who is beautiful. Can be used as a term of address.
The man was faithful to his wife, ignoring the many blonde beautifuls who surrounded him wherever he went.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Beautiful in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | beau, belle |
| German | schön , heiter , toll |
| Portuguese | belo, bela, bonito, bonita, lindo, linda |
| Spanish | hermoso, fermoso, bello, bel, bellido , despejado |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.