# beauty

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈbjuːti/ · frequency rank #1,809

## Definitions
1. The quality of being (especially visually) attractive, pleasing, fine or good-looking; comeliness.
2. Someone who is beautiful.
3. Those aspects or elements that make someone or something beautiful.
4. Something that is particularly good or pleasing.
5. An excellent or egregious example of something.
6. The excellence or genius of a scheme or decision.
7. A beauty quark (now called bottom quark).
8. Beauty treatment; cosmetology.
9. Prevailing style or taste; rage; fashion.
10. Beautiful passages or extracts of poetry.

## Etymology
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂-der.?
Proto-Italic *dwenos
Old Latin duenos
Old Latin duonusder.
Old Latin *duenelos
Vulgar Latin bellus
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Proto-Italic *-tāts
Vulgar Latin -tās
Vulgar Latin *bellitātem
Anglo-Norman biautébor.
Middle English beaute
English beauty
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. In this sense, mostly displaced native Old English fæġernes, whence Modern English fairness.

## Easily confused with
- **betty** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/beauty-vs-betty)
- **beaux** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/beauty-vs-beaux)
- **beat** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/beat-vs-beauty)
- **beau** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/beau-vs-beauty)
- **beast** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/beast-vs-beauty)
- **beats** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/beats-vs-beauty)
- **batty** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/batty-vs-beauty)
- **beaut** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/beaut-vs-beauty)
- **beasts** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/beasts-vs-beauty)
- **Beatty** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/beatty-vs-beauty)
- **beastly** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/beastly-vs-beauty)

## Common misspellings (8)
`baeuty`, `bbeauty`, `beatuy`, `beautty`, `beautyy`, `beauyt`, `beuaty`, `ebauty`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/beauty