beet

Other forms of beet

plural

beets·

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 beet

What does beet mean?

beet means "biennial Eurasian plant usually having a swollen edible root; widely cultivated as a food crop". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in beet?

beet has 1 syllable: beet. In IPA it is /ˈbit/.

What is another word for beet?

Close synonyms include common beet, Beta vulgaris, beetroot. 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 beet a common word?

beet is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for 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 beet?

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