bebop

Other forms of bebop

plural

bebops·

past tense

bebopped·

present participle

bebopping·

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 bebop

What does bebop mean?

bebop means "an early form of modern jazz (originating around 1940)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bebop?

bebop has 2 syllables: be-bop. The stress falls on "be". In IPA it is /ˈbiˌbɑp/.

What is another word for bebop?

Close synonyms include bop, bop. 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 bebop a common word?

bebop 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 bebop?

1 word rhymes with bebop. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.