bauble

Other forms of bauble

plural

baubles·

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 bauble

What does bauble mean?

bauble means "a mock scepter carried by a court jester". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bauble?

bauble has 2 syllables: bau-ble. The stress falls on "bau". In IPA it is /ˈbɔbəl/.

What is another word for bauble?

Close synonyms include bangle, gaud, gewgaw, novelty, fallal. 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 bauble a common word?

bauble is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. 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 bauble?

1 word rhymes with bauble. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.