cheep

Other forms of cheep

plural

cheeps·

past tense

cheeped·

present participle

cheeping·

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 cheep

What does cheep mean?

cheep means "the short weak cry of a young bird". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cheep?

cheep has 1 syllable: cheep.

What is another word for cheep?

Close synonyms include peep, peep, chirp, chirrup. 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 cheep a common word?

cheep 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.