beget

Other forms of beget

past tense or participle

begat

past tense or participle

begot

past tense or participle

begotten

present participle

begetting

third person

begets·

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 beget

What does beget mean?

beget means "make (offspring) by reproduction".

How many syllables are in beget?

beget has 2 syllables: be-get. The stress falls on "get". In IPA it is /bɪˈɡɛt/.

What is another word for beget?

Close synonyms include get, engender, father, mother, sire. 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 beget a common word?

beget 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 beget?

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