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furbaby

noun

furbaby is a noun meaning “A furry pet considered a child by a human” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-U-R-B-A-B-Y, and it appears about once in every 32 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of furbaby is furbabies.

What does furbaby mean?

noun

  1. 1

    informalA furry pet considered a child by a human.

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

Forms of furbaby

  • furbabies plural
  • fur baby

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

How common is furbaby?

Furbaby appears about once in every 32 million words in written English, the 171,907th 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).

Where does furbaby come from?

From fur + baby.

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