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bespin

verb

bespin is a verb meaning “To spin around or about, so as to cover; spin all over” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled B-E-S-P-I-N, and it appears about once in every 24 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does bespin mean?

verb

  1. 1

    To spin around or about, so as to cover; spin all over.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of bespin

  • bespins present, singular, he/she/it
  • bespinning participle, present
  • bespun participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is bespin?

Bespin appears about once in every 24 million words in written English, the 148,541st 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 bespin come from?

From be- + spin. Cognate with German bespinnen (“to spin over”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).