beech

Other forms of beech

plural

beeches·

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 beech

What does beech mean?

beech means "any of several large deciduous trees with rounded spreading crowns and smooth grey bark and small sweet edible triangular nuts enclosed in burs; north temperate regions". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in beech?

beech has 1 syllable: beech. In IPA it is /ˈbitʃ/.

What is another word for beech?

Close synonyms include beech tree, beechwood. 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 beech a common word?

beech 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.

What rhymes with beech?

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