How do you pronounce begot?

The recorded pronunciation is /biɡˈɔt/.

begot

/biɡˈɔt/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.97 in modern English

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"Good my Lord, You haue begot me, bred me, lou'd me."
"This day I have begot whom I declare / My onely Son, and on this holy Hill[…]"
"[…]for the most part empires have begot hybrid civilisations that absorbed much from their subject peoples."

misbegot unbegot

begat

thought brought taught fought sought ought ot bot wrought wat distraught fraught

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