Beersheba
/bɪə(ɹ)ˈʃiːbə/
"beersheba" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Beersheba” is uncommon English (frequency #73,897 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,897
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A city in Israel.
Corpus desk
Index EN-beersheba · Beersheba · English
Beersheba · rank #73,897 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,897
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH Bedi
Nearest frequency peer: Bedi (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “Beersheba”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- baseband
baseband
26,111 corpus weight
- basmati
basmati
26,110 corpus weight
- beatificati…
beatification
26,106 corpus weight
- Bedi
Bedi
26,105 corpus weight
- Beersheba
Beersheba
26,104 corpus weight
- bens
bens
26,098 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Beersheba” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Beersheba |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /bɪə(ɹ)ˈʃiːbə/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #73,897 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Beersheba” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Beersheba is uncommon English at frequency #73,897 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /bɪə(ɹ)ˈʃiːbə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A city in Israel.".
Beersheba doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Hebrew בְּאֵר שֶׁבַע (b'ér shéva). The correct English form is Beersheba, spelled B-E-E-R-S-H-E-B-A.
Definition
- 1A city in Israel.
Etymology
From Hebrew בְּאֵר שֶׁבַע (b'ér shéva).
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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