infant

Other forms of infant

plural

infants·

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 infant

What does infant mean?

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

How many syllables are in infant?

infant has 2 syllables: in-fant. The stress falls on "in". In IPA it is /ˈɪnfənt/.

What is another word for infant?

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

infant 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.