bewitch

Other forms of bewitch

past tense

bewitched·

present participle

bewitching·

third person

bewitches·

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 bewitch

What does bewitch mean?

bewitch means "attract; cause to be enamored". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bewitch?

bewitch has 2 syllables: be-witch. The stress falls on "witch". In IPA it is /bɪˈwɪtʃ/.

What is another word for bewitch?

Close synonyms include capture, enamour, trance, catch, becharm. 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 bewitch a common word?

bewitch 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 bewitch?

1 word rhymes with bewitch. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.