befool

Other forms of befool

past tense

befooled·

present participle

befooling·

third person

befools·

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 befool

What does befool mean?

befool means "make a fool or dupe of". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in befool?

befool has 2 syllables: be-fool. The stress falls on "fool".

What is another word for befool?

Close synonyms include fool, gull, gull, dupe, slang. 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 befool a common word?

befool 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.