babe

Other forms of babe

plural

babes·

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 babe

What does babe mean?

babe means "a very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk".

How many syllables are in babe?

babe has 1 syllable: babe. In IPA it is /ˈbeɪb/.

What is another word for babe?

Close synonyms include baby, infant. 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 babe a common word?

babe is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.