Befit

Definition: Befit

Befit

Verb

1. Accord or comport with.

Date "befit" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Note: Befit \Be*fit"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Befitted; present participle verb or noun Befitting.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Befit

Synonyms: beseem (v), suit (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Agreement	Verb: be accordant; Adjective: agree, accord, harmonize; correspond, tally, respond; meet, suit, fit, befit, do, adapt itself to; fall in with, chime in with, square with, quadrate with, consort with, comport with; dovetail, assimilate; fit like a glove, fit to a tittle, fit to a T; match; become one; homologate.
Duty	Verb: be the duty of; be incumbent; Adjective: on, be responsible; Adjective: behoove, become, befit, beseem; belong to, pertain to; fall to one's lot; devolve on; lie upon, lie on one's head, lie at one's door; rest with, rest on the shoulders of. take upon oneself; (promise); be bound to, become bound to, be sponsor for, become sponsor for; incur a responsibility; Noun: be under an obligation, stand under an obligation, lie under an obligation; have to answer for, owe to it oneself.
Expedience	Verb: be expedient; Adjective:; suit; (agree); befit; suit the time, befit the time, suit the season, befit the season, suit the occasion, befit the occasion.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Befit

English words defined with "befit": Befitted ♦ manfully, manly, Misbecome ♦ unmanfully, unmanly. (references)

"Befit" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Befit" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	100%	5	157,705

Expressions using "befit": befit the occasion ♦ befit the season ♦ befit the time. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "befit"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		betaam (be fitting). (various references)

Albanian		shkoj (be, call on, come round, destine, elapse, get, go, go by, ride, step, thread, trace, tread, visit, wend), i kam hije. (various references)

Arabic		‏ناسب (fit, marry, proportion, suit), ‏لاق ب (become), ‏لاءم (accommodate, adapt, adjust, agree with, be convenient for, be suitable for, fit, match, suit). (various references)

Bulgarian		подхождам (agree, approach, assort, become, beseem, conform, do, fit, match, sit, sort), подобавам (become, behoove, beseem, pertain). (various references)

Czech		slušet se (behoove), patřit (be, belong, go), hodit se (become, fit, hit it off, throw oneself). (various references)

Dutch		passen (attempt, be appropriate, be fitting, be suitable, conform, fit, fit in, fitting, suit, test, try, try on), horen (be fitting, find out, have to, hear, horn, learn of, must, ought to, should), betamen (be appropriate, be fitting, be suitable, suit), behoren (be fitting, belong to, have to, must, ought to, should). (various references)

Esperanto		deci (be fitting). (various references)

Faeroese		søma (be appropriate, be fitting, be suitable, suit), hóska (be appropriate, be fitting, be suitable, suit). (various references)

Farsi		مناسب بودن (Able, Assort, Become, Seem, Suit), درخوربودن (Become), برازیدن (Become). (various references)

Finnish		sopia (agree, be appropriate, be fitting, be suitable, become reconciled, fit, make an agreement, make it up, match, settle, suit). (various references)

French		convenir � (become), être décent (be fitting). (various references)

German		ziemen (be appropriate, be fitting, be suitable, become, suit). (various references)

Greek		αρμόζω (be proper, become, belong, beseem, suit). (various references)

Hebrew		ל� אות (be beautiful, suit). (various references)

Hungarian		illik (be fitting, beseem, to behove, to hitch, to match). (various references)

Indonesian		sesuai (agree, agreeable, congruent, fit), pantas (appropriate, becoming, decent, ethical, fit, meet, opportune, reasonable, suitable), cocok (acceptable, agree, appropriate, apt, come true, compatible, corespond, correct, jibe, like, palatable, pin, suit, suitable, tally). (various references)

Italian		convenire (agree, be better, be fitting, be worth, behove, convene, fit, forgather, pay, stipulate, suit, to prosecute someone, to sue someone, understand). (various references)

Manx		cooie (applicable, apt, competent, congruent, decent, decorous, hereditary, opportune, suitable, timely). (various references)

Pig Latin		efitbay

Portuguese		serpróprio, serdecente, ser próprio de (appertain, belong, pertain), convir a (run in), convir (agree, become, behoove, beseem, covenant, do, like, ought, suit). (various references)

Romanian		se potrivi (agree, assort, become, coincide, comport, dovetail, fit, hit it off, jump together, register, tally, yoke together), fi bun (be good at smth., do), fi adecvat. (various references)

Russian		следовать (abide by, behoove, ensue, follow, follow upon, ought, pursue, result, run, supervene), приличествовать (beseem). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		pristajati (adhere, agree, beseem, fit, go along with), lepo stajati (beseem). (various references)

Spanish		convenir (agree, answer, arrange, be appropriate, be fitting, be suitable, concur, do, fall in, suit). (various references)

Swedish		passa (become, consort, fit, go, look after, mind, pass, serve, sit, suit, tend, to amble), anstå (be postponed, become, pertain, wait). (various references)

Thai		เหมาะสม (apt, become, becoming, due, expedient, good, just, likely, meet, neat, seemly, suitable). (various references)

Turkish		yaraşmak (become, behoove, suit), yakışmak (assort, become, behoove, behove, comport, fit, go together, pertain, suit), uygun düşmek (apply, be suitable, chime in with, suit). (various references)

Ukranian		годитися (become, belong, beseem, fit, suit), личити (become, beseem, pertain, suit), підходити (approach, become, befall, beseem, come up to, draw on, like, near, nigh, pertain, satisfy). (various references)

Welsh		gweddu (become, beseem, suit). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Old English	450-1100	gedafenian. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "befit": befits, befitted, befitting, befittingly. (additional references)
	Words containing "befit": unbefitting. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Befit" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Beafort, Becir, bedit, befa, befast, befate, beffet, befoh, Befu, begit, beift, beit, beki, Belfitt, belit, benfit, benit, betif, bevit, bifet, bifi, bift, bifte, Biofilta, boft, Breffort, Brefi, defit, Ebbitt, efit. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "befit" (pronounced bufi"t)
3	-f i" t	fit, refit, unfit.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-e-f-i-t"
	-1 letter: bite.
	-2 letters: bet, bit, eft, fet, fib, fie, fit, tie.
	-3 letters: be, bi, ef, et, if, it, ti.
	Words containing the letters "b-e-f-i-t"
	+1 letter: befits.
	+2 letters: barefit, beatify, benefit, bigfeet, filbert, tubifex.
	+3 letters: beatific, beautify, beefiest, befitted, benefits, biforate, botflies, briefest, buffiest, filberts, fireboat, firebrat, fittable, fleabite, fubsiest, lifeboat, liftable.
	+4 letters: batfishes, beatified, beatifies, beautiful, befitting, benefited, benefiter, bifurcate, biosafety, bisulfate, bisulfite, blueshift, brutified, brutifies, buffeting, fabricate, fatigable, filtrable, fimbriate, fireboats, firebrats, flabbiest, fleabites, frostbite, lifeboats, objectify, shiftable, tubifexes.
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