beat: meaning and words from its letters
4 letters · 6 letter points · starts with B · ends with T
Meaning of beat
noun
A stroke; a blow.
A pulsation or throb.
Example: a beat of the heart
A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece.
A rhythm.
Example: I love watching her dance to a pretty drum beat with a bouncy rhythm!
Listed forms: beats.
Source: Wiktionary — beat.
verb
- transitive
To hit; to strike.
Example: As soon as she heard that her father had died, she went into a rage and beat the wall with her fists until her knuckles bled.
- transitive
To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
Example: He danced hypnotically while she beat the atabaque.
- intransitive
To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
- intransitive
To move with pulsation or throbbing.
Listed forms: beats, beating, beated, beaten, glossary, beatest.
Source: Wiktionary — beat.
verb
simple past tense of beat
- colloquial, especially, form-of, participle, past
past participle of beat
Base or related entry: beat.
Source: Wiktionary — beat.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for beat.
adjective
very tired
noun
a regular route for a sentry or policeman
noun
the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart
noun
the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music
- rhythm
- musical rhythm
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is beat in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of beat
B(3) + E(1) + A(1) + T(1) = 6 points.
This is a sum of letter values without board bonuses or word multipliers. A blank tile is worth zero: subtract the value of each letter supplied by a blank. The score does not establish game validity. Full letter-value table.
Anagrams of beat
3 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
Shorter words from beat
13 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in beat. Showing up to 24, longest first.