beep

1. 1.

   a short high tone produced as a signal or warning

   Synonymsbleep

   Broadersound

Other forms of beep

plural

beeps·

past tense

beeped·

present participle

beeping·

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 beep

What does beep mean?

beep means "make a loud noise". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in beep?

beep has 1 syllable: beep. In IPA it is /ˈbip/.

What is another word for beep?

Close synonyms include honk, blare, claxon, toot, bleep. 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 beep a common word?

beep 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.