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baby face

ba·by face/ˈbeɪbi ˌfeɪs/noun

baby face is spelled B-A-B-Y-F-A-C-E: 8 letters and 2 syllables (ba·by face). As a noun, baby face means “A face, often chubby, resembling that of a baby; a youthful face” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of baby face is baby faces or baby-faces.

How many letters and syllables are in baby face?

Letters8: B-A-B-Y-F-A-C-E
Syllables2: ba·by face
In writinga phrase: the frequency list counts single words
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce baby face?

  • UK /ˈbeɪbɪ feɪs/
  • US /ˈbeɪbi ˌfeɪs/

Baby face has 2 syllables, split ba·by face in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-baby_face.mp3, En-au-baby_face.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with baby face

Also written: babyface (one word or two).

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

Forms of baby face

  • baby faces plural
  • babyface
  • baby-face
  • baby-faces plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does baby face mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A face, often chubby, resembling that of a baby; a youthful face.

  2. 2

    derogatoryA person having such a face, especially a young man having a beardless appearance.

  3. 3

    slangA headlining wrestler with a persona embodying heroic or virtuous traits and who is regarded as a good guy, especially one who is handsome and well-conditioned.

noun

as baby-face
  1. 1

    Alternative form of baby face.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Baby face in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
GermanMilchgesicht (face resembling that of a baby)
Spanishlampiño (person having such a face), técnico, técnica (headlining wrestler with a persona embodying…)
Frenchgentil, héros (headlining wrestler with a persona embodying…)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does baby face come from?

From baby + face.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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