babble

1. 1.

   gibberish resembling the sounds of a baby

   Synonymsbabblinglallation

   Broadergibberish

Other forms of babble

plural

babbles·

past tense

babbled·

present participle

babbling·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about babble

What does babble mean?

babble means "utter meaningless sounds, like a baby, or utter in an incoherent way". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in babble?

babble has 2 syllables: bab-ble. The stress falls on "bab". In IPA it is /ˈbæbəl/.

What is another word for babble?

Close synonyms include blather, smatter, blether, blither, ripple. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is babble a common word?

babble is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with babble?

2 words rhyme with babble. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.