befitting

1. 1.

   appropriate to

   “behavior befitting a father”

   Similarappropriate

Questions about befitting

What does befitting mean?

befitting means "appropriate to".

How many syllables are in befitting?

befitting has 3 syllables: be-fit-ting. The stress falls on "fit". In IPA it is /bɪˈfɪtɪŋ/.

Is befitting a common word?

befitting 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 befitting?

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