belabor

Other forms of belabor

past tense

belaborred·

present participle

belaborring·

third person

belabors·

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 belabor

What does belabor mean?

belabor means "to work at or to absurd length". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in belabor?

belabor has 3 syllables: be-la-bor. The stress falls on "la". In IPA it is /bɪˈleɪbɚ/.

What is another word for belabor?

Close synonyms include belabour, belabour, belabour. 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 belabor a common word?

belabor 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.

What rhymes with belabor?

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