babil
French, noun/ba.bil/
babil is spelled B-A-B-I-L (5 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written French, the 104,709th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Babil is a French masculine noun meaning “babble, baby talk” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Bavardage enfantin où le plaisir passe avant la volonté d’être compris”.
What does babil mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinebabble, baby talk
- 2
masculineease, facility to talk
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Bavardage enfantin où le plaisir passe avant la volonté d’être compris. 2. Abondance de paroles inutiles.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of babil
- babils plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce babil?
- /ba.bil/
- \ba.bil\
- [ba.bil]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to babil
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is babil in French?
babil appears about once in every 10 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).