well-being
/wɛlˈbiː.ɪŋ/
"well-being" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“well-being” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A state of health, happiness or prosperity.
Corpus desk
Index EN-well-being · well-being · English
well-being · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "W" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | well-being |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /wɛlˈbiː.ɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “well-being” in English
Rare enough to double-check
well-being is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /wɛlˈbiː.ɪŋ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A state of health, happiness or prosperity.".
No misspelling variants are generated for well-being in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is well-being, spelled W-E-L-L---B-E-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1A state of health, happiness or prosperity.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how well-being appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
which concernes our whole three Kingdomes, Parliaments, Religion, and every one of our well-beings, in this preſent world
Most foreigners who have heard of Bhutan know two things: the country charges international visitors a $100/day sustainable development fee (aka tourist tax), and that it is the birthplace of the Gross National Happiness Index, a system intended to look after the well-being of citizens and the environment.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.