beige
/ˈbeɪʒ/noun, adjective
beige is spelled B-E-I-G-E: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 2.0 times per million words in written English, the 19,589th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, beige means “A colour, variously defined from a pale brown, to a yellow greyish off-white” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of beige is beiges.
How many letters and syllables are in beige?
| Letters | 5: B-E-I-G-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 2.0 times per million words; the 19,589th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is beige?
Beige appears 2.0 times per million words in written English, the 19,589th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce beige?
- US /ˈbeɪʒ/
- US /ˈbeɪd͡ʒ/
- British /ˈbɛjʒ/
Beige has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-beige.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with beige?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as beige from its last stressed vowel (/eɪʒ/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of beige
- beiges plural
- beiger comparative
- more beige comparative
- beigest superlative
- most beige superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does beige mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A colour, variously defined from a pale brown, to a yellow greyish off-white.
- 2
Debeige; a kind of woollen or mixed dress goods.
adjective
- 1
Having a slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool.
- 2
informalComfortably dull and unadventurous, in a way that suggests middle-class suburbia.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate beige?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of beige: bge.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Beige in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does beige come from?
Unadapted borrowing from French (dialectal) beige, from Old French bege (“color of undyed wool or cotton”), from an Alpine language (compare Franco-Provençal bézho, Romansch besch (“dull grey”)), from Vulgar Latin *bysseus (“cottony grey”) (compare French bis, Catalan bis, Italian bigio), from Late Latin byssus (“cotton”), from Ancient Greek βύσσος (bússos, “cotton homespun”), from Semitic (compare Hebrew/Aramaic בוץ (būṣ)). Doublet of bice.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).