newbie

Other forms of newbie

plural

newbies·

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 newbie

What does newbie mean?

newbie means "any new participant in some activity".

How many syllables are in newbie?

newbie has 2 syllables: new-bie. The stress falls on "new". In IPA it is /ˈnuˌbi/.

What is another word for newbie?

Close synonyms include newcomer, fledgling, fledgeling, starter, neophyte. 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 newbie a common word?

newbie 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.

What rhymes with newbie?

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