bé
French, noun/be/
bé is spelled B-É (2 letters) and appears 19 times per million words in written French, the 4,050th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bé is a French masculine noun meaning “The name of the Latin script letter B/b” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Lettre latine B, b”.
What does bé mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineThe name of the Latin script letter B/b.
adjective
- 1
opened, agape
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
onomatopoeia: 1. Imitation du bêlement.
noun: 1. Lettre latine B, b.
noun: 1. Deuxième lettre et première consonne de l’alphabet cyrillique : Б (majuscule), б (minuscule).
adjective: 1. Bémol.
onomatopoeia: 1. Imitation du bêlement.
noun: 1. Bureau d’études.
symbol: 1. Symbole du degré Baumé.
symbol: 1. Symbole du degré Baumé.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of bé
- bés plural
- bée feminine
- bées feminine plural
- bê
- bè
- bêê
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce bé?
- /be/
- \bɛ\
- \be\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to bé
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bé in French?
bé appears 19 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).