beta
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,076
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
beta is aSpanishnoun. It means: Segunda letra del alfabeto griego. Pronounced [ˈbet̪a]. It ranks #9,076 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with bla and bot.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | beta |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbet̪a] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #9,076 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for beta is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈbet̪a]. Corpus data places it at rank #9,076 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for beta, with forms such as "bbeta", "betta", and "btea". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bla", "bot", "but", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is beta, spelled B-E-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Segunda letra del alfabeto griego.
- 2Nombre con el que se suele designar a la segunda estrella, en orden de magnitud, de una constelación.
- 3versión del software que esta en fase de pruebas.
- 4con la letra griega de tal nombre se designan cantidades y puntos, como vértices de ángulos, etc., enumerados en segundo término.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbeta,betta,btea,ebta
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for beta
Misspelling Variants of "beta"
Frequency rank: #9,076 in Spanish
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "beta"?
What does "beta" mean?
What words are commonly confused with "beta"?
How do you pronounce "beta"?
What language does "beta" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter B in our Spanish index: