beguilement

noun

"beguilement" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“beguilement” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
11
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The action or process of beguiling; the characteristic of being beguiling.

Corpus desk

Index EN-beguilement · beguilement · English

beguilement · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "B" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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Key facts for beguilement
PropertyValue
Headwordbeguilement
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “beguilement” sits in English frequency

beguilementfalls outside the top-100,000 ranked English words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

beguilement is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The action or process of beguiling; the characteristic of being beguiling.".

Zero misspellings are on record for beguilement in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

Etymologically, the entry records: From beguile + -ment. The correct English form is beguilement, spelled B-E-G-U-I-L-E-M-E-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    The action or process of beguiling; the characteristic of being beguiling.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how beguilement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. These wintry nights, if she turned from the fire and the beguilement of Jim's songs, to shudderingly look outside at the frosty moonlit world, Andrew's prediction that their waiting pints of water would be all ice in the morning was often a little consolation.
  2. 1924, Mark Twain, Mark Twain's Autobiography, First Edition, Volume 2, entry dated Tuesday, April 10, 1906, Little by little Bacon got to beguiling out of Hill things to do, and presently Hill was furnishing him the things to do without any beguilement.

Etymology

From beguile + -ment.

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "beguilement"?
"beguilement" is spelled B-E-G-U-I-L-E-M-E-N-T.
What does "beguilement" mean?
As a noun, "beguilement" means: The action or process of beguiling; the characteristic of being beguiling.
What is the origin of the word "beguilement"?
From beguile + -ment. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list