beau-père
\bo.pɛʁ\
The verdict
“beau-père” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Père d’un conjoint par rapport à l’autre conjoint.
Corpus desk
Index FR-beau-pere · beau-père · French
beau-père · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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 | beau-père |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bo.pɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
beau-père is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \bo.pɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
beau-père has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is beau-père, spelled B-E-A-U---P-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Père d’un conjoint par rapport à l’autre conjoint.
- 2Nouvel époux (ou compagnon) de la mère ou du père, par rapport aux enfants que la mère ou le père a eus lors d’une union précédente.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how beau-père appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Manicamp. – Ne m’appelez pas Manicamp… ça me désoblige… appelez-moi beau-père…
— Oh ! j’ai été si peu marié, d’ailleurs ce n’est pas une femme que j’ai épousée, c’est un beau-père.
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.