babysit

Other forms of babysit

past tense

babysitted·

present participle

babysitting·

third person

babysits·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about babysit

What does babysit mean?

babysit means "take watchful responsibility for". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in babysit?

babysit has 3 syllables: ba-by-sit. The stress falls on "ba". In IPA it is /ˈbeɪbisɪt/.

What is another word for babysit?

Close synonyms include baby-sit, baby-sit, sit. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is babysit a common word?

babysit is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.