bedevil

Other forms of bedevil

past tense or participle

bedevilled

present participle

bedevilling

third person

bedevils·

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 bedevil

What does bedevil mean?

bedevil means "treat cruelly". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bedevil?

bedevil has 3 syllables: be-dev-il. The stress falls on "dev". In IPA it is /bɪˈdɛvəl/.

What is another word for bedevil?

Close synonyms include torment, rag, crucify, dun, frustrate. 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 bedevil a common word?

bedevil is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met 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 bedevil?

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