# beige

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈbeɪʒ/ · frequency rank #19,531

## Definitions
1. A slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool.
2. Debeige; a kind of woollen or mixed dress goods.

## Etymology
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.

## Easily confused with
- **big** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/beige-vs-big)
- **bike** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/beige-vs-bike)
- **bite** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/beige-vs-bite)
- **berg** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/beige-vs-berg)
- **brig** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/beige-vs-brig)
- **bile** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/beige-vs-bile)
- **bein** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/beige-vs-bein)
- **brie** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/beige-vs-brie)
- **Beit** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/beige-vs-beit)
- **bene** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/beige-vs-bene)
- **bigg** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/beige-vs-bigg)
- **bide** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/beige-vs-bide)
- **being** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/beige-vs-being)
- **bride** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/beige-vs-bride)
- **belle** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/beige-vs-belle)
- **binge** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/beige-vs-binge)
- **bribe** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/beige-vs-bribe)
- **Boise** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/beige-vs-boise)
- **bulge** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/beige-vs-bulge)
- **budge** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/beige-vs-budge)

## Common misspellings (6)
`bbeige`, `begie`, `beieg`, `beigge`, `biege`, `ebige`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/beige