bestride

Other forms of bestride

past tense or participle

bestrid

past tense or participle

bestridden

past tense or participle

bestrode

present participle

bestriding·

third person

bestrides·

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 bestride

What does bestride mean?

bestride means "get up on the back of".

How many syllables are in bestride?

bestride has 2 syllables and divides as be-stride under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for bestride?

Close synonyms include hop on, mount, mount up, get on, jump on. 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 bestride a common word?

bestride 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.