bauble
/ˈbɔbəl/noun
bauble is spelled B-A-U-B-L-E. The wrong spelling people search most is bawble: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 256 of all searches for the word. Bauble is a noun meaning “A cheap showy ornament or piece of jewellery; a gewgaw”. The plural of bauble is baubles.
How many letters and syllables are in bauble?
| Letters | 6: B-A-U-B-L-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 5 million words; the 67,454th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, bawble, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Pairs people search |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell bauble?
Bauble is spelled B-A-U-B-L-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 258 of the searches for bauble in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is bauble?
Bauble appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 67,454th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce bauble?
- UK [ˈbɔːbəɫ]
- [ˈbɒbəɫ]
- US /ˈbɔbəl/
Bauble has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-bauble.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with bauble
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
Forms of bauble
- baubles plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does bauble mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A cheap showy ornament or piece of jewellery; a gewgaw.
- 2
Anything trivial and worthless.
- 3
A small shiny spherical decoration, commonly put on Christmas trees.
- 4
A club or sceptre carried by a jester.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Bauble in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | babiole , boule de Noël |
| German | Modeschmuck, Schnickschnack , Christbaumkugel |
| Spanish | baratija , bola de navidad |
| Portuguese | bola de natal |
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 bauble come from?
From Middle English bable, babel, babull, babulle, from Old French babel, baubel (“trinket, child's toy”), most likely a reduplication of bel, ultimately from Latin bellus (“pretty”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).