blab

Other forms of blab

past tense or participle

blabbed

present participle

blabbing

third person

blabs·

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 blab

What does blab mean?

blab means "divulge confidential information or secrets". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in blab?

blab has 1 syllable: blab. In IPA it is /ˈblæb/.

What is another word for blab?

Close synonyms include spill the beans, let the cat out of the bag, talk, tattle, peach. 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 blab a common word?

blab 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.