beech
/ˈbiːt͡ʃ/noun
beech is spelled B-E-E-C-H: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 1.9 times per million words in written English, the 20,356th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “beach vs beech” about 50 times a month (Google, United States). As a noun, beech means “A tree of the genus Fagus having a smooth, light grey trunk, oval, pointed leaves, and many branches” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of beech is beeches.
How many letters and syllables are in beech?
| Letters | 5: B-E-E-C-H |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 |
| In writing | 1.9 times per million words; the 20,356th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search | |
| Sounds like |
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 common is beech?
Beech appears 1.9 times per million words in written English, the 20,356th 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 beech?
- /ˈbiːt͡ʃ/
- [ˈbɪi̯t͡ʃ]
Beech has one syllable.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-beech.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with beech
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sounds like: beach (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
Forms of beech
- beeches plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does beech mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A tree of the genus Fagus having a smooth, light grey trunk, oval, pointed leaves, and many branches.
- 2
The wood of the beech tree.
noun
- 1
An aircraft made by Beechcraft.
The company had five Beeches for flying its top executives around.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Beech in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense tree of genus Fagus:
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 beech come from?
From Middle English beche, from Old English bēċe, from Proto-West Germanic *bōkijā (“beech”). Doublet of buky. Related to English book.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).