Bean

/biːn/

Synonyms for "bean" (191 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (39)

Noun(11 words)
nogginatticbean plantbean seedboncebrainclitoriscoffea seedcoffee beancoffee seedcranium

Strong matches (57)

Noun(7 words)
domeedible beanfrijolfrijolitohitkalelegume seed

Related words (95)

Choosing the right synonym

  • Closest matches in this entry: noggin, a continental, a curse, a damn, a darn.
  • Sentence evidence is available for bean, so synonym choice can be checked against real usage rather than a flat word list.
  • Ranking signals come from wordnet, opengloss, moby, derived_reverse, and related lexical sources.

Synonym selection checklist

  • Match the part of speech before comparing meanings.
  • Check whether the synonym changes intensity, formality, or emotional tone.
  • Read the replacement inside the full sentence, not just beside "bean".
  • Prefer the clearest word over the most unusual word when writing for speed or comprehension.

When not to replace "bean"

Keep "bean" when the sentence already sounds natural, when a synonym would add unintended emphasis, or when readers need the most familiar wording. A synonym should clarify or sharpen the message, not simply make the sentence look more varied.

If two options seem close, choose the one that best matches the audience and purpose of the sentence.

Replacement workflow

1. Preserve meaning

Choose a synonym only if it keeps the core idea of "bean" intact in the sentence you are editing.

2. Tune tone

Check whether the replacement sounds more formal, casual, emotional, technical, or forceful than the original word.

3. Re-read context

Read the full sentence after the swap. Keep the synonym only when the sentence becomes clearer or more precise.

Review note: Synonym lists are ranked with lexical data and reviewed for practical writing value. Use the comparison notes, sentence evidence, and source labels together; a high-ranking synonym can still be wrong when the audience, register, or grammar changes.

Final fit check

After choosing a replacement for "bean", read the sentence once for meaning and once for rhythm. The best synonym should feel natural in the full sentence, not only accurate in a word list.

If the synonym makes the sentence slower, vaguer, or more dramatic than intended, keep "bean" or choose a simpler alternative from the closest-match group.

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

5 relation types

More general

9 entries
anatomical partattackbody parthithuman headlegumeleguminous plantseed

More specific

8 entries
accidental beaningarabica beanbaseball beaningblack beanfava beankidney beannavy beanrobusta bean

Collocations

12 entries
baseballbatterbean sproutbeanballdried beansgreen beansheadinjurykidney beansnavy beanspitchsoy beans

Inflections

3 entries

Derivations

6 entries

Translations

204 translations across 153 languages.

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Acehnese

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  • kacang noun (seed)

Afrikaans

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  • boontjie noun (seed)

Albanian

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  • bathë noun (seed)
  • fasule noun (seed)

Amharic

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  • ባቄላ noun (seed)

Ancient Greek

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  • κύαμος noun (seed)
  • φάσηλος noun (seed)

Andi

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  • гьоли noun (seed)

Arabic

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  • فول noun (seed)
  • فولة noun (seed)
  • فَاصُولِيَا noun (seed)
  • لُوبِيَا noun (seed)

Aragonese

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  • faba noun (seed)

Argobba

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  • ባቄላ noun (seed)

Armenian

2 entries
  • բակլա noun (seed)
  • լոբի noun (seed)

Asturian

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  • faba noun (seed)

Avar

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  • гьоло noun (seed)

Azerbaijani

1 entries
  • lobya noun (seed)

Balinese

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  • buncis noun (seed)

Baluchi

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  • ماک noun (seed)

Basque

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  • babarrun noun (seed)

Belarusian

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  • боб noun (seed)
  • фасо́ль noun (seed)

Bengali

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  • শিম noun (seed)
  • সীম noun (seed)

Blackfoot

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  • áótooksiinaattsi noun (seed)
  • áótooksiinattsiistsi noun (seed)

Breton

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  • favenn noun (seed)

Bulgarian

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  • боб noun (seed)
  • фасу́л noun (seed)

Burmese

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  • ပဲ noun (seed)

Catalan

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  • fesol noun (seed)
  • mongeta noun (seed)

Central Kurdish

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  • فاسولیا noun (seed)

Chamicuro

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  • mapolooto noun (seed)

Cherokee

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  • ᏚᏯ noun (seed)

Chichewa

1 entries
  • nyemba noun (seed)

Chinese Mandarin

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  • 豆 noun (seed)

Cornish

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  • faven noun (seed)

Czech

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  • fazole noun (seed)

Danish

2 entries
  • bønne noun (seed)
  • bønner noun (seed)

Dutch

1 entries
  • boon noun (seed)

Erzya

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  • покра noun (seed)

Esperanto

1 entries
  • fabo noun (seed)

Estonian

1 entries
  • uba noun (seed)

Ewe

1 entries
  • ayi noun (seed)

Faroese

1 entries
  • bøna noun (seed)

Finnish

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  • papu noun (seed)

French

1 entries
  • haricot noun (seed)

Galician

2 entries
  • faba noun (seed)
  • feixón noun (seed)

Ge'ez

1 entries
  • ባቄላ noun (seed)

Georgian

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  • ლობიო noun (seed)

German

1 entries
  • Bohne noun (seed)

Greek

1 entries
  • φασόλι noun (seed)

Haitian Creole

1 entries
  • pwa noun (seed)

Hebrew

1 entries
  • שְׁעוּעִית noun (seed)

Hindi

1 entries
  • सेम noun (seed)

Hungarian

2 entries
  • bab noun (seed)
  • paszuly noun (seed)

Hunsrik

1 entries
  • Bohn noun (seed)

Icelandic

1 entries
  • baun noun (seed)

Ido

1 entries
  • fabo noun (seed)

Indonesian

1 entries
  • kacang noun (seed)

Ingrian

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  • papu noun (seed)

Inuktitut

1 entries
  • nilernait noun (seed)

Irish

1 entries
  • pónaire noun (seed)

Italian

1 entries
  • fagiolo noun (seed)

Iu Mien

1 entries
  • dopc noun (seed)

Japanese

2 entries
  • 豆 noun (seed)
  • 隠元 noun (seed)

Jarai

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  • rơtă noun (seed)

Javanese

1 entries
  • ꦏꦕꦁ noun (seed)

K'iche'

1 entries
  • kinaq' noun (seed)

Kazakh

1 entries
  • бұршақ noun (seed)

Khmer

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  • សណ្ដែក noun (seed)

Kikuyu

1 entries
  • mbosho noun (seed)

Korean

1 entries
  • 콩 noun (seed)

Kyrgyz

1 entries
  • буурчак noun (seed)

Ladino

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  • ava noun (seed)
  • fasulya noun (seed)
  • fijon (Salonik) noun (seed)

Lak

1 entries
  • хъюру noun (seed)

Lakota

2 entries
  • omníča noun (seed)
  • omníčahu noun (seed)

Lao

2 entries
  • ຖົ່ວ noun (seed)
  • ໝາກຖົ່ວ noun (seed)

Latin

2 entries
  • faba noun (seed)
  • phaseolus noun (seed)

Latvian

1 entries
  • pupa noun (seed)

Ligurian

1 entries
  • faxeu noun (seed)

Lingala

1 entries
  • nkúnde noun (seed)

Lithuanian

2 entries
  • pupa noun (seed)
  • pupelė noun (seed)

Lombard

1 entries
  • fasoeul noun (seed)

Low German

1 entries
  • Boon noun (seed)

Lower Sorbian

1 entries
  • bobowka noun (seed)

Luhya

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  • kamakanda noun (seed)

Lü

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  • ᦷᦏᧈ noun (seed)

Macedonian

2 entries
  • боб noun (seed)
  • грав noun (seed)

Malagasy

1 entries
  • tsaramaso noun (seed)

Malay

1 entries
  • kacang noun (seed)

Maltese

2 entries
  • fażola noun (seed)
  • fula noun (seed)

Manchu

1 entries
  • ᡨᡠᡵᡳ noun (seed)

Manx

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  • poanrey noun (seed)

Massachusett

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  • tupahquam noun (seed)

Mongolian

2 entries
  • буурцаг noun (seed)
  • шош noun (seed)

Māori

1 entries
  • piini noun (seed)

Nahuatl

1 entries
  • etl noun (seed)

Navajo

1 entries
  • naaʼołí noun (seed)

Neapolitan

1 entries
  • fasulo noun (seed)

Norman

1 entries
  • haricot noun (seed)

North Frisian

1 entries
  • buan noun (seed)

Northern Kurdish

1 entries
  • fasûlî noun (seed)

Northern Sami

1 entries
  • báhpu noun (seed)

Norwegian

1 entries
  • bønne noun (seed)

Occitan

2 entries
  • favòl noun (seed)
  • mongeta noun (seed)

Ojibwe

4 entries
  • mashkodesimin noun (seed)
  • mashkodesiminag noun (seed)
  • miskodiisimin noun (seed)
  • miskodiisiminag noun (seed)

Old Javanese

1 entries
  • kacaṅ noun (seed)

Old Prussian

1 entries
  • babo noun (seed)

Oromo

1 entries
  • baaqelaa noun (seed)

Ottoman Turkish

1 entries
  • فاصولیه noun (seed)

Pannonian Rusyn

1 entries
  • пасуля noun (seed)

Pennsylvania German

1 entries
  • Buhn noun (seed)

Persian

2 entries
  • باقالا noun (seed)
  • لوبیا noun (seed)

Pipil

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  • et noun (seed)

Plautdietsch

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  • Boon noun (seed)

Polish

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  • fasola noun (seed)

Portuguese

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  • feijão noun (seed)

Quechua

2 entries
  • chuwi noun (seed)
  • jawas noun (seed)

Romanian

2 entries
  • bob noun (seed)
  • fasole noun (seed)

Romansch

2 entries
  • bagiauna noun (seed)
  • fav noun (seed)

Russian

2 entries
  • боб noun (seed)
  • фасо́ль noun (seed)

Saterland Frisian

1 entries
  • Boone noun (seed)

Scottish Gaelic

1 entries
  • pònair noun (seed)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries
  • grȁh noun (seed)
  • pàsūlj noun (seed)
  • гра̏х noun (seed)
  • па̀сӯљ noun (seed)

Shan

1 entries
  • ထူဝ်ႇ noun (seed)

Sicilian

1 entries
  • faciola noun (seed)

Sinhalese

1 entries
  • බෝංචි noun (seed)

Slovak

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  • fazuľa noun (seed)

Slovene

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  • fižol noun (seed)

Somali

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  • digir noun (seed)

Sotho

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  • nawa noun (seed)

Southern Altai

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  • мырчак noun (seed)

Spanish

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  • alubia noun (seed)
  • caraota noun (seed)
  • frijol noun (seed)
  • haba noun (seed)

Swahili

1 entries
  • haragwe noun (seed)

Swedish

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  • böna noun (seed)

Tagalog

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  • katsang noun (seed)

Tai Dam

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  • ꪖ꪿ꪺ noun (seed)

Tajik

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  • лӯбиё noun (seed)

Taos

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  • tą́na noun (seed)

Tarifit

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  • baw noun (seed)

Thai

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  • ถั่ว noun (seed)

Tigrinya

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  • ባልደንጓ noun (seed)

Turkish

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  • fasulye noun (seed)
  • lobya noun (seed)

Turkmen

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  • kösük noun (seed)
  • noýba noun (seed)

Uab Meto

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  • fue noun (seed)

Ukrainian

3 entries
  • біб noun (seed)
  • квасо́ля noun (seed)
  • фасо́ля noun (seed)

Unami

1 entries
  • malàxkwsit noun (seed)

Upper Sorbian

1 entries
  • buna noun (seed)

Urdu

2 entries
  • سیم noun (seed)
  • لوبیا noun (seed)

Uyghur

1 entries
  • پۇرچاق noun (seed)

Uzbek

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  • loviya noun (seed)

Vietnamese

1 entries
  • đậu noun (seed)

Walloon

1 entries
  • feve noun (seed)

Welsh

1 entries
  • ffa noun (seed)

West-Frisian

1 entries
  • beane noun (seed)

Western Apache

1 entries
  • béʼistsʼǫ́z noun (seed)

White Hmong

2 entries
  • noob taum noun (seed)
  • taum noun (seed)

Wintu

1 entries
  • friholis noun (seed)

Yiddish

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  • באָב noun (seed)
  • בעבל noun (seed)
  • פֿאַסאָליע noun (seed)

Yup'ik

1 entries
  • nelernaq noun (seed)

Sample sentences

23 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

I don't care a bean.

Source: tatoeba (51273)

Jerry is the bean counter for our company.

Source: tatoeba (53681)

Bean sprouts are eaten as a salad in America.

Source: tatoeba (67627)

Ivy Bean, the oldest user of both Facebook and Twitter, died at 104.

Source: tatoeba (526353)

Showing 4 of 23 available sentences.

Common questions

What are the closest synonyms for "bean"?

Closest matches include noggin, a continental, a curse, a damn, a darn.

How should I check whether a synonym fits "bean"?

Compare the replacement against real sentence context. This entry includes sample sentences so you can check tone, grammar, and meaning before swapping words.

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