bespeak

Other forms of bespeak

past tense or participle

bespoke

past tense or participle

bespoken

present participle

bespeaking·

third person

bespeaks·

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 bespeak

What does bespeak mean?

bespeak means "be a signal for or a symptom of". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bespeak?

bespeak has 2 syllables: be-speak. The stress falls on "speak". In IPA it is /bɪˈspik/.

What is another word for bespeak?

Close synonyms include betoken, indicate, point, signal, request. 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 bespeak a common word?

bespeak 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 bespeak?

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