beam
/biːm/
The verdict
“beam” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #63,606 among 2,459 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,606
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,459
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Viga.
Corpus desk
Index ES-beam · beam · Spanish
beam · rank #63,606 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,606
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,459
- PHOTO-FINISH beberse
Nearest frequency peer: beberse (+2 rank slots)
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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “beam”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- barrena
barrena
36,401 corpus weight
- barrendero
barrendero
36,400 corpus weight
- beam
beam
36,395 corpus weight
- beberse
beberse
36,393 corpus weight
- bells
bells
36,392 corpus weight
- bellísimas
bellísimas
36,391 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “beam” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | beam |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /biːm/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #63,606 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “beam” en español
Rare enough to double-check
beam is uncommon Spanish at frequency #63,606 among 2,459 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /biːm/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for beam, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is beam, spelled B-E-A-M.
Definition
- 1Viga.
- 2Rayo, haz.
- 3Manga (longitud).
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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).