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beauty

beau·ty/ˈbjuti/noun, interjection, adjective

beauty is spelled B-E-A-U-T-Y, 2 syllables: beau·ty. The wrong spelling people search most is beauti: about 180 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026). Beauty is a noun meaning “The quality of being (especially visually) attractive, pleasing, fine or good-looking; comeliness”. The plural of beauty is beauties.

How many letters and syllables are in beauty?

Letters6: B-E-A-U-T-Y
Syllables2: beau·ty
In writing56 times per million words; the 1,822nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched1; the most searched, beauti, about 180 Bing searches a month (all of them)
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); 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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How do you spell beauty?

Beauty is spelled B-E-A-U-T-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure.

beautythe right spelling
beautii in place of y180 searches a month

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 beauty?

Beauty appears 56 times per million words in written English, the 1,822nd 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 beauty?

  • UK /ˈbjuːti/
  • US /ˈbjuti/
  • US [-ɾi]

Beauty has 2 syllables, split beau·ty in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-beauty.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with beauty?

3 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as beauty from its last stressed vowel (/uti/):

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 beauty

  • beauties plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • more beauty comparative
  • most beauty superlative
  • beautying participle, present
  • beautied participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does beauty mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    The quality of being (especially visually) attractive, pleasing, fine or good-looking; comeliness.

  2. 2

    Someone who is beautiful.

    Brigitte Bardot was a renowned beauty.

  3. 3

    Those aspects or elements that make someone or something beautiful.

  4. 4

    Something that is particularly good or pleasing.

    What a goal! That was a real beauty!

  5. 5

    An excellent or egregious example of something.

    He got into a fight and ended up with two black eyes – two real beauties!

  6. 6

    The excellence or genius of a scheme or decision.

    The beauty of the deal is it costs nothing!

  7. 7

    obsoleteA beauty quark (now called bottom quark).

  8. 8

    Beauty treatment; cosmetology.

    a hair and beauty salon

interjection

  1. 1

    CanadaThanks!

  2. 2

    CanadaCool!

    It's the long weekend. Beauty!

adjective

  1. 1

    archaicPossessing beauty; beautiful.

  2. 2

    CanadaOf high quality, well done.

    He made a beauty pass through the neutral zone.

verb

  1. 1

    obsoleteTo make beautiful.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Beauty in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchbeauté (quality of pleasing appearance)
GermanSchönheit (quality of pleasing appearance), Schöner (someone beautiful: male), Schöne (someone beautiful: female), Prachtstück (something particularly good or pleasing)
Portuguesebeleza (quality of pleasing appearance), beldade (someone beautiful: female)
Spanishbelleza, hermosura, preciosidad, preciosura, beldad, lindeza (quality of pleasing appearance)

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.

Where does beauty come from?

From Middle English bewty, bewte, beaute, bealte, from Anglo-Norman and Old French beauté (early Old French spelling biauté), from Vulgar Latin *bellitātem (“beauty”), from Latin bellus (“beautiful, fair”); see beau.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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