bette

\bɛt\

/\bɛt\/ noun

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The verdict

“bette” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #35,827) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#35,827
frequency rank, French
4,251
“B” headwords
4
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Beta, genre de plantes de la famille des Amaranthacées.

Corpus desk

Index FR-bette · bette · French

bette · rank #35,827 · 4 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #35,827
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-LOW 4 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,251
  • PHOTO-FINISH BEP

Nearest frequency peer: BEP (-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.

Voisins de fréquence du confusable « bette »

Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « bette » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.

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).

bette vs bite
60% similar
bette vs bute
60% similar
bette vs Butt
40% similar

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

Key facts for bette
PropertyValue
Headwordbette
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\bɛt\
Letters5
Frequency rank#35,827
Misspellings tracked4
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « bette »

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

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « BEP » (#35,826), « biopsie » (#35,828), « bavarder » (#35,825). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « bette » est au #35,827. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for bette is neighbouring look-alikes ("bite", "bute", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \bɛt\. Frequency #35,827 among 4,251 “B” headwords. 4 recorded senses keep meaning in play.

Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for bette, with forms such as "bbette", "betet", and "btete". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bite", "bute", "Butt", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is bette, spelled B-E-T-T-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Beta, genre de plantes de la famille des Amaranthacées.
  2. 2
    Beta vulgaris L., la bette ordinaire.
  3. 3
    Betterave.
  4. 4
    Tête de quelqu’un, au sens de l’image qu’elle projette, de l’expression qui l’anime.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Les terrains imprégnés de sel disparaissaient sous les ansérines, les arroches, les bettes, celles-ci glauques, celles-là rougeâtres.
  2. Une planche de bettes.

This word in other languages

chard(English)acelga(Español)Mangold(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • bbette
  • betet
  • btete
  • ebtte

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bette - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

bbette1betet2btete2ebtte2
Edit distance from "bette"

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 "bette"?
"bette" is spelled B-E-T-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \bɛt\.
What does "bette" mean?
As a noun, "bette" means: Beta, genre de plantes de la famille des Amaranthacées.
What words are commonly confused with "bette"?
"bette" is commonly confused with "bite", "bute", "Butt". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "bette"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "bette" is \bɛt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "bette" come from?
"bette" 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 "bette", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Batna#35,823amigo#35,806worms#35,777crame#35,887

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list