Beria
"beria" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Beria” is uncommon English (frequency #93,458 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,458
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname from Mingrelian; especially when referring to Lavrentiy Beria, NKVD chief under Stalin's administration and one of the main architect of the Great Purge.
Corpus desk
Index EN-beria · Beria · English
Beria · rank #93,458 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,458
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH Bew
Nearest frequency peer: Bew (+4 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 “Beria”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- beardy
beardy
6,551 corpus weight
- Bedoya
Bedoya
6,549 corpus weight
- Bekele
Bekele
6,548 corpus weight
- Beria
Beria
6,543 corpus weight
- Bew
Bew
6,539 corpus weight
- bewitch
bewitch
6,538 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Beria” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Beria |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #93,458 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Beria” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Beria is uncommon English at frequency #93,458 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname from Mingrelian; especially when referring to Lavrentiy Beria, NKVD chief under Stalin's administration and one of the main architect of the Great Purge.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Beria in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Russian Берия (Berija), ultimately from Mingrelian ბერია (beria). The correct English form is Beria, spelled B-E-R-I-A.
Definition
- 1A surname from Mingrelian; especially when referring to Lavrentiy Beria, NKVD chief under Stalin's administration and one of the main architect of the Great Purge.
Etymology
Borrowed from Russian Берия (Berija), ultimately from Mingrelian ბერია (beria).
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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