beckon

Other forms of beckon

past tense

beckonned·

present participle

beckonning·

third person

beckons·

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 beckon

What does beckon mean?

beckon means "signal with the hands or nod". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in beckon?

beckon has 2 syllables: bec-kon. The stress falls on "bec". In IPA it is /ˈbɛkən/.

What is another word for beckon?

Close synonyms include wave. 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 beckon a common word?

beckon is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.