beggar

Other forms of beggar

plural

beggars·

past tense

beggarred·

present participle

beggarring·

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 beggar

What does beggar mean?

beggar means "be beyond the resources of". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in beggar?

beggar has 2 syllables: beg-gar. The stress falls on "beg". In IPA it is /ˈbɛɡɚ/.

What is another word for beggar?

Close synonyms include pauperize, pauperise, mendicant. 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 beggar a common word?

beggar 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.