beyond
be·yond/biˈ(j)ɑnd/preposition, adverb, noun
beyond is spelled B-E-Y-O-N-D, 2 syllables: be·yond. The wrong spelling people search most is beyound: about 190 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 66 of all searches for the word. Beyond is a preposition meaning “Further away than”.
How many letters and syllables are in beyond?
| Letters | 6: B-E-Y-O-N-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: be·yond |
| In writing | 95 times per million words; the 1,125th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, beyound, about 190 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell beyond?
Beyond is spelled B-E-Y-O-N-D. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 47 of the searches for beyond in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is beyond?
Beyond appears 95 times per million words in written English, the 1,125th 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 beyond?
- UK /bɪˈjɒnd/
- US /biˈ(j)ɑnd/
- /bɪˈjɛnd/
Beyond has 2 syllables, split be·yond in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-beyond.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with beyond?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as beyond from its last stressed vowel (/ɑnd/):
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 beyond
- beyonds plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does beyond mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
preposition
- 1
Further away than.
- 2
On the far side of.
No swimming beyond this point.
- 3
Later than; after.
- 4
Greater than; so as to exceed or surpass.
Your staff went beyond my expectations in refunding my parking ticket.
- 5
In addition to; supplementing.
She had no reason for the conviction beyond the very inadequate one that she had seen him around London.
- 6
Past, or out of reach of.
You won't last beyond my first punch.
- 7
Not within the comprehension of.
He understood geometry well, but algebraic topology was beyond him.
adverb
- 1
Farther along or away.
next year and beyond
- 2
In addition; more.
- 3
informalextremely, more than
noun
- 1
The unknown.
- 2
The hereafter.
- 3
Something that is far beyond.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Beyond in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | au-delà, par-delà |
| Portuguese | além |
| Spanish | más allá / acullá de, allende , más allá de , más allá |
| German | jenseits |
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 beyond come from?
From Middle English biyonde, from Old English beġeondan, from be- + ġeond; related to yonder.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).