beshear
verb
beshear is spelled B-E-S-H-E-A-R: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 70,702nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, beshear means “To shear or shave off; shear or shave all over” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in beshear?
| Letters | 7: B-E-S-H-E-A-R |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 6 million words; the 70,702nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How common is beshear?
Beshear appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 70,702nd 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).
Forms of beshear
- beshears present, singular, he/she/it
- beshearing participle, present
- beshore past
- besheared past, participle
- beshorn participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does beshear mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
To shear or shave off; shear or shave all over.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does beshear come from?
From Middle English bischeren, from Old English besċieran, besċeran (“to shear, shave, cut hair, give the tonsure”), from Proto-West Germanic *biskeran (“to cut off”), equivalent to be- (“around, off, away”) + shear. Cognate with Saterland Frisian beskere, West Frisian beskeare, Dutch bescheren, German Low German bescheren, German bescheren.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).