beguile

Other forms of beguile

past tense

beguiled·

present participle

beguiling·

third person

beguiles·

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 beguile

What does beguile mean?

beguile means "influence by slyness". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in beguile?

beguile has 2 syllables: begui-le. The stress falls on "le". In IPA it is /bɪˈɡaɪl/.

What is another word for beguile?

Close synonyms include juggle, hoodwink, capture, enamour, trance. 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 beguile a common word?

beguile 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 beguile?

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