behemoth

Other forms of behemoth

plural

behemoths·

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 behemoth

What does behemoth mean?

behemoth means "someone or something that is abnormally large and powerful". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in behemoth?

behemoth has 3 syllables: be-he-moth. The stress falls on "he". In IPA it is /bəˈhiməθ/.

What is another word for behemoth?

Close synonyms include giant, goliath, monster, colossus, colossus. 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 behemoth a common word?

behemoth 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.