babblemouth

noun

"babblemouth" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“babblemouth” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
11
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - One who babbles.

Corpus desk

Index EN-babblemouth · babblemouth · English

babblemouth · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "B" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Key facts for babblemouth
PropertyValue
Headwordbabblemouth
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “babblemouth” in English

babblemouthsits beyond the 100,000 most-frequent English words, in the long tail of technical, archaic, or otherwise rare vocabulary where spelling doubt tends to strike hardest.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

babblemouth is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

babblemouth doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

Etymologically, the entry records: From babble + mouth. The correct English form is babblemouth, spelled B-A-B-B-L-E-M-O-U-T-H.

Definition

  1. 1
    One who babbles.
  2. 2
    One who reveals or gives away information.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how babblemouth appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. It’s a slow-dazzle performance that leaves you wishing the film would pair him up with Adams (a brief dalliance between them is inexplicably dropped) instead of sending his dancer wife, a neurotic babblemouth, back home to him.
  2. He was a middle-aged babblemouth who talked computers and fad diets remorselessly, seasoning his monologues with plod monosyllables—Jung, Bach, Proust—managing to give them the intellectual weight of Ping-Pong balls.

Etymology

From babble + mouth.

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "babblemouth"?
"babblemouth" is spelled B-A-B-B-L-E-M-O-U-T-H.
What does "babblemouth" mean?
As a noun, "babblemouth" means: One who babbles.
What is the origin of the word "babblemouth"?
From babble + mouth. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list