beck

1. 1.

   a beckoning gesture

   Broadergesture

Other forms of beck

plural

becks·

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 beck

What does beck mean?

beck means "a beckoning gesture".

How many syllables are in beck?

beck has 1 syllable: beck. In IPA it is /ˈbɛk/.

Is beck a common word?

beck is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.