newsbeat
noun
newsbeat is a noun meaning “Synonym of beat (“the primary focus of a reporter's stories”)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled N-E-W-S-B-E-A-T, and it appears about once in every 18 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of newsbeat is newsbeats.
What does newsbeat mean?
noun
- 1
Synonym of beat (“the primary focus of a reporter's stories”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of newsbeat
- newsbeats plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is newsbeat?
Newsbeat appears about once in every 18 million words in written English, the 128,787th 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).
Where does newsbeat come from?
From news + beat.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).