beset

Other forms of beset

past tense

besetted·

present participle

besetting

third person

besets·

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 beset

What does beset mean?

beset means "annoy continually or chronically". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in beset?

beset has 2 syllables: be-set. The stress falls on "set". In IPA it is /bɪˈsɛt/.

What is another word for beset?

Close synonyms include harass, hassle, harry, chivy, chivvy. 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 beset a common word?

beset 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 beset?

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