babbel
\ˈbabl̩\
The verdict
“babbel” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de babbeln.
Corpus desk
Index FR-babbel · babbel · French
babbel · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | babbel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈbabl̩\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « babbel » en français
Rare enough to double-check
babbel is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈbabl̩\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for babbel in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is babbel, spelled B-A-B-B-E-L.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de babbeln.
- 2Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de babbeln.
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.