beauty

\ˈbjuː.ti\

/\ˈbjuː.ti\/ noun

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The verdict

“beauty” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,644. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#20,644
frequency rank, French
4,251
“B” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
12
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Beauté.

Corpus desk

Index FR-beauty · beauty · French

beauty · rank #20,644 · 8 variants · 12 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #20,644
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,251
  • PHOTO-FINISH beaujolais

Nearest frequency peer: beaujolais (-1 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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « beauty »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « beauty » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

beauty vs beaux
67% similar
beauty vs Betty
50% similar
beauty vs beau
67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for beauty
PropertyValue
Headwordbeauty
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ˈbjuː.ti\
Letters6
Frequency rank#20,644
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs12
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « beauty »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.beautyse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « beaujolais » (#20,643), « Belleville » (#20,645), « battements » (#20,642). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « beauty » est au #20,644. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around beauty (IPA \ˈbjuː.ti\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,644 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for beauty, with forms such as "baeuty", "bbeauty", and "beatuy". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "beaux", "Betty", "beau", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is beauty, spelled B-E-A-U-T-Y.

Definition

  1. 1
    Beauté.
  2. 2
    Une chose charmante et attrayante.
  3. 3
    Beauté, belle femme.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how beauty appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Beauty is only skin-deep.
  2. He had entertained hopes of being admitted to a sight of the young ladies, of whose beauty he had heard much; but he saw only the father.

Synonyms

prettiness

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • baeuty
  • bbeauty
  • beatuy
  • beautty
  • beautyy
  • beauyt
  • beuaty
  • ebauty

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of beauty - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

baeuty2bbeauty1beatuy2beautty1beautyy1beauyt2beuaty2ebauty2
Edit distance from "beauty"

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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "beauty"?
"beauty" is spelled B-E-A-U-T-Y. The IPA pronunciation is \ˈbjuː.ti\.
What does "beauty" mean?
As a noun, "beauty" means: Beauté.
What words are commonly confused with "beauty"?
"beauty" is commonly confused with "beaux", "Betty", "beau". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "beauty"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "beauty" is \ˈbjuː.ti\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "beauty" come from?
"beauty" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "beauty", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

bandit#20,640bobine#20,649Bailly#20,638August#20,637

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

cerfs8 variantsvitaux8 variantstanks8 variantstacite8 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list