beheld
/bɪˈhɛld/
"beheld" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“beheld” is uncommon English (frequency #52,177 among 31,241 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,177
- frequency rank, English
- 31,241
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - simple past and past participle of behold
Corpus desk
Index EN-beheld · beheld · English
beheld · rank #52,177 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,177
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 31,241
- PHOTO-FINISH beckoned
Nearest frequency peer: beckoned (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “beheld”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- beadle
beadle
47,828 corpus weight
- beautify
beautify
47,827 corpus weight
- beckoned
beckoned
47,826 corpus weight
- beheld
beheld
47,824 corpus weight
- Bessemer
Bessemer
47,822 corpus weight
- bifida
bifida
47,819 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “beheld” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | beheld |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /bɪˈhɛld/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #52,177 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “beheld” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
beheld is uncommon English at frequency #52,177 among 31,241 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /bɪˈhɛld/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of behold".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for beheld, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is beheld, spelled B-E-H-E-L-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of behold
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).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.