Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

becarpet

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: be-car-pet
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To cover like a carpet.

Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"And outside was the garden, with its lemon-trees growing in vast jars-like the jars of Knossos—but marked with Barberini bees; its white and red camellias becarpeting the soft grass with their fallen petals; […]"
"The billet-village decks its glades / With leafy poplar-colonnades / And apple-orchards where the bloom / Makes every tree a great mushroom / Of petals pink as summer dawn, / Soon to becarpet all the lawn […]"

Etymology

From be- + carpet.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: be

Usage

Transitive verb

Inflected Forms

becarpets (present, singular) becarpeting (participle, present) becarpeted (participle, past) becarpeted (past)

Questions

What does becarpet mean?: To cover like a carpet.
Where does becarpet come from?: From be- + carpet.

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