bleat

Other forms of bleat

plural

bleats·

past tense

bleated·

present participle

bleating·

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 bleat

What does bleat mean?

bleat means "talk whiningly". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bleat?

bleat has 2 syllables: ble-at. The stress falls on "at".

What is another word for bleat?

Close synonyms include blate, blat, baa. 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 bleat a common word?

bleat 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.