behedge
"behedge" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“behedge” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To hedge about; surround with or as with a hedge.
Corpus desk
Index EN-behedge · behedge · English
behedge · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | behedge |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “behedge” in English
Rare enough to double-check
behedge is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
behedge has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From be- + hedge; compare Old English behegian and Dutch beheggen (“to put a hedge around, behedge”). The correct English form is behedge, spelled B-E-H-E-D-G-E.
Definition
- 1To hedge about; surround with or as with a hedge.
- 2To determine the boundary or limit of; define.
- 3To surround; beset; plague; hinder.
- 4To straiten; restrict; constrain; limit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how behedge appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[...] so that, though he had neither fixed flag not fixed father to cloud his thought and behedge his landscape, he could still, he used to say, share in the gush about ancestry.
Having been spawned in a royal bed — perchance the same in which his great gran'dame Catherine was wont to receive her paramours — he becomes the most powerful of princes — haloed with "that divinity which doth behedge a king" — and all [...]
Etymology
From be- + hedge; compare Old English behegian and Dutch beheggen (“to put a hedge around, behedge”).
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.