beginner
/bəˈɡɪnɚ/noun
beginner is spelled B-E-G-I-N-N-E-R. The wrong spelling people search most is begginer: about 100 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 21 of all searches for the word. Beginner is a noun meaning “Someone who is just starting at something, or has only recently started”. The plural of beginner is beginners.
How many letters and syllables are in beginner?
| Letters | 8: B-E-G-I-N-N-E-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 3.3 times per million words; the 14,509th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, begginer, about 100 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; 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 beginner?
Beginner is spelled B-E-G-I-N-N-E-R. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 21 of the searches for beginner in either form.
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 beginner?
Beginner appears 3.3 times per million words in written English, the 14,509th 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 beginner?
- UK /bɪˈɡɪnə/
- US /bəˈɡɪnɚ/
Beginner has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-beginner.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-beginner.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with beginner?
9 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as beginner from its last stressed vowel (/ɪnəɹ/):
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 beginner
- beginners plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does beginner mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Someone who is just starting at something, or has only recently started.
I'm new to learning Finnish: I'm just a beginner.
- 2
Someone who sets something in motion.
The beginner of the games lit the ceremonial torch.
- 3
An actor who is present on stage in the first moments of a play.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Beginner in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense someone who just recently started:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | débutant, débutante |
| German | Anfänger, Anfängerin, Neuling |
| Portuguese | calouro, iniciante, novato, principiante |
| Spanish | bisoño, novato, novel, novicio, novillo, principiante |
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 beginner come from?
From Middle English begynner, equivalent to begin + -er. Cognate with West Frisian begjinner (“beginner”), Dutch beginner (“beginner”), Low German begünner (“beginner”), Danish nybegynder (“beginner, novice”, literally “new-beginner”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).