beak

1. 1.

   hit lightly with a picking motion

   Synonymspeckpick

   Broaderstrike

Other forms of beak

plural

beaks·

past tense

beaked·

present participle

beaking·

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 beak

What does beak mean?

beak means "beaklike mouth of animals other than birds (e.g., turtles)". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in beak?

beak has 1 syllable: beak. In IPA it is /ˈbik/.

What is another word for beak?

Close synonyms include bill, neb, nib, pecker, honker. 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 beak a common word?

beak 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.

What rhymes with beak?

2 words rhyme with beak. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.