Beith
"beith" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Beith” is uncommon English (frequency #99,016 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,016
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A small town in North Ayrshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS3454).
Corpus desk
Index EN-beith · Beith · English
Beith · rank #99,016 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,016
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH bejesus
Nearest frequency peer: bejesus (+1 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.
Long-tail ranks near “Beith”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- beatitude
beatitude
987 corpus weight
- Beith
Beith
985 corpus weight
- bejesus
bejesus
984 corpus weight
- Berar
Berar
983 corpus weight
- Bernina
Bernina
982 corpus weight
- berserkers
berserkers
979 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Beith” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Beith |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #99,016 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Beith” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Beith is uncommon English at frequency #99,016 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Beith, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: Probably from Scottish Gaelic beith. The correct English form is Beith, spelled B-E-I-T-H.
Definition
- 1A small town in North Ayrshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS3454).
- 2A surname.
Etymology
Probably from Scottish Gaelic beith.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).