become

Other forms of become

past tense or participle

became

present participle

becoming·

third person

becomes·

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 become

What does become mean?

become means "enter or assume a certain state or condition". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in become?

become has 2 syllables: be-come. The stress falls on "come". In IPA it is /bɪˈkʌm/.

What is another word for become?

Close synonyms include go, get, turn, suit. 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 become a common word?

become is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. 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 become?

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