begone
/biːˈɡɒn/
"begone" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“begone” is uncommon English (frequency #55,946 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,946
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Expressing a desire or a command for someone or something to go away.
Corpus desk
Index EN-begone · begone · English
begone · rank #55,946 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,946
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH belie
Nearest frequency peer: belie (+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 “begone”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- basta
basta
44,058 corpus weight
- begone
begone
44,055 corpus weight
- belie
belie
44,054 corpus weight
- believeth
believeth
44,053 corpus weight
- Benidorm
Benidorm
44,052 corpus weight
- Bernardi
Bernardi
44,050 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “begone” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | begone |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | /biːˈɡɒn/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #55,946 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “begone” in English
Rare enough to double-check
begone is uncommon English at frequency #55,946 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as aninterjection, transcribed /biːˈɡɒn/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Expressing a desire or a command for someone or something to go away.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for begone in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Univerbation of be + gone. Compare English beware. The correct English form is begone, spelled B-E-G-O-N-E.
Definition
- 1Expressing a desire or a command for someone or something to go away.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how begone appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Fairies be gone, and be alwaies away.
"Begone! move quickly! if quickly you can, you that shine forth into sight in moist times like the worm."
Etymology
Univerbation of be + gone. Compare English beware.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).