babyhood

Other forms of babyhood

plural

babyhoods·

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 babyhood

What does babyhood mean?

babyhood means "the early stage of growth or development". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in babyhood?

babyhood has 3 syllables: ba-by-hood. The stress falls on "ba". In IPA it is /ˈbeɪbiˌhʊd/.

What is another word for babyhood?

Close synonyms include infancy, early childhood, infancy. 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 babyhood a common word?

babyhood is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met 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 babyhood?

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