beshear
"beshear" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“beshear” is uncommon English (frequency #70,499 among 31,241 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,499
- frequency rank, English
- 31,241
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - To shear or shave off; shear or shave all over.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | beshear |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #70,499 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “beshear” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
beshear is uncommon English at frequency #70,499 among 31,241 “B” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "To shear or shave off; shear or shave all over.".
No misspelling variants are generated for beshear in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English bischeren, from Old English besċieran, besċeran (“to shear, shave, cut hair, give the tonsure”), from Proto-West Germanic *biskeran (“to cut off”), equivalent to be- (“around, off, away”) + shear. Cognate with Saterland Frisian beskere, … The correct English form is beshear, spelled B-E-S-H-E-A-R.
Definition
- 1To shear or shave off; shear or shave all over.
Etymology
From Middle English bischeren, from Old English besċieran, besċeran (“to shear, shave, cut hair, give the tonsure”), from Proto-West Germanic *biskeran (“to cut off”), equivalent to be- (“around, off, away”) + shear. Cognate with Saterland Frisian beskere, West Frisian beskeare, Dutch bescheren, German Low German bescheren, German bescheren.
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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Using “beshear”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is B-E-S-H-E-A-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.