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babyboom

French, noun/ba.bi.bum/

babyboom is spelled B-A-B-Y-B-O-O-M (8 letters) and appears about once in every 47 million words in written French, the 216,805th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Babyboom is a French masculine noun meaning “baby boom (post-World War II baby boom, 1946 to 1964)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Augmentation importante du taux de natalité de certains pays, juste après la fin de la Seconde Guerre…”.

What does babyboom mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinebaby boom (post-World War II baby boom, 1946 to 1964)

  2. 2

    masculinebaby boom (any large increase in births)

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Augmentation importante du taux de natalité de certains pays, juste après la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. 2. Toute augmentation notable de la natalité.

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 babyboom

  • babybooms plural
  • baby boom
  • baby-boom

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce babyboom?

  • /ba.bi.bum/
  • /be.bi.bum/
  • \ba.bi.bum\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is babyboom in French?

babyboom appears about once in every 47 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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