begot
"begot" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“begot” is uncommon English (frequency #97,838 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,838
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past of beget
Corpus desk
Index EN-begot · begot · English
begot · rank #97,838 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,838
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH Bayle
Nearest frequency peer: Bayle (-2 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 “begot”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Baumeister
Baumeister
2,166 corpus weight
- Bayle
Bayle
2,165 corpus weight
- begot
begot
2,163 corpus weight
- beneficiati…
beneficiation
2,158 corpus weight
- Benicia
Benicia
2,157 corpus weight
- benzoic
benzoic
2,156 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “begot” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | begot |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #97,838 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “begot” in English
Rare enough to double-check
begot is uncommon English at frequency #97,838 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for begot in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is begot, spelled B-E-G-O-T.
Definition
- 1simple past of beget
- 2past participle of beget
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how begot appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Good my Lord, You haue begot me, bred me, lou'd me.
This day I have begot whom I declare / My onely Son, and on this holy Hill[…]
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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).