beaver
/ˈbiːvə/
"beaver" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“beaver” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #12,733. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,733
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A semiaquatic rodent of the genus Castor, having a wide, flat tail and webbed feet, native to the Northern Hemisphere.
Corpus desk
Index EN-beaver · beaver · English
beaver · rank #12,733 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,733
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH Barton
Nearest frequency peer: Barton (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “beaver”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- ay
ay
87,272 corpus weight
- bale
bale
87,270 corpus weight
- Barton
Barton
87,269 corpus weight
- beaver
beaver
87,268 corpus weight
- Brunswick
Brunswick
87,266 corpus weight
- caller
caller
87,264 corpus weight
What this shows “beaver” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | beaver |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈbiːvə/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #12,733 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “beaver”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around beaver (IPA /ˈbiːvə/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,733 among 4,121 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 12 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for beaver, with forms such as "baever", "bbeaver", and "beaevr". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "beer", "brave", "bevel", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English bever, from Old English befer, from Proto-West Germanic *bebru, from Proto-Germanic *bebruz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰébʰrus (“beaver”). Cognate with West Frisian bever, Dutch bever, French bièvre, German Biber, dialectal Swedish bjur… The correct English form is beaver, spelled B-E-A-V-E-R.
Definition
- 1A semiaquatic rodent of the genus Castor, having a wide, flat tail and webbed feet, native to the Northern Hemisphere.
- 2The fur of the beaver.
- 3A hat, of various shapes, made from a felted beaver fur (or later of silk), fashionable in Europe between 1550 and 1850.
- 4Beaver pelts as an article of exchange or as a standard of value.
- 5Beaver cloth, a heavy felted woollen cloth, used chiefly for making overcoats.
- 6A brown colour, like that of a beaver.
- 7A move in response to being doubled, in which one immediately doubles the stakes again, keeping the doubling cube on one’s own side of the board.
- 8Alternative letter-case form of Beaver (“member of the youngest wing of the Scout movement”).
- 9A beard or a bearded person.
- 10A game, in which points are scored by spotting beards.
- 11The pubic hair near a vulva or a vulva itself; (attributively) denoting films or literature featuring nude women.
- 12A woman, especially one who is sexually attractive.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how beaver appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Then, for the safeguard of his personage, He did appoint a warlike equipage Of foreign beasts, not in the forest bred, But part by land and part by water fed; For tyranny is with strange aid supported. Then unto him all monstrous beasts resorted Bred of two kinds, as Griffons, Minotaurs, Crocodiles, Dragons, Beavers, and Centaurs: With those himself he st…
a broad beaver slouched over his eyes
Etymology
From Middle English bever, from Old English befer, from Proto-West Germanic *bebru, from Proto-Germanic *bebruz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰébʰrus (“beaver”). Cognate with West Frisian bever, Dutch bever, French bièvre, German Biber, dialectal Swedish bjur. Non-Germanic cognates include Welsh befer, Latin fiber, Lithuanian bẽbras, Russian бобр (bobr), Avestan 𐬠𐬀𐬎𐬎𐬭𐬀 (bauura), and Sanskrit बभ्रु (bábhru, “mongoose; ichneumon”). Slang use to refer to a woman evolved from use to refer to pubic hair, which evolved from use to refer to beards, which evolved from use to refer to the furry animal or its fur.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- baever
- bbeaver
- beaevr
- beaverr
- beavre
- beavver
- bevaer
- ebaver
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of beaver - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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