belabor
/bɪˈleɪ.bə/verb
belabor is a verb meaning “US spelling of belabour” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled B-E-L-A-B-O-R and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 15 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does belabor mean?
verb
- 1
USUS spelling of belabour.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce belabor?
- UK /bɪˈleɪ.bə/
Belabor has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-belabour.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of belabor
- belabors present, singular, he/she/it
- belaboring participle, present
- belabored participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is belabor?
Belabor appears about once in every 15 million words in written English, the 115,751st most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does belabor come from?
From be- (“on, upon, about, over”) + labor.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).