babe
A baby or infant; a very young human or animal.
Noun 2 meanings
A baby or infant; a very young human or animal.
“These events came to pass when he was but a babe.”
A darling (a term of endearment).
“Hey, babe, how's about you and me getting together?”
Etymology
From Middle English babe, a variant of earlier baban, perhaps from Old English *baba (“boy, child”), from Proto-West Germanic *babō, from Proto-Germanic *babô, reduplicated variant of *ba-, *bō- (“father, brother, close male relation”).
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BABE at a glance
BABE has 4 letters and scores 8 points in Scrabble (B 3 + A 1 + B 3 + E 1) and 10 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #5,841 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with babe
All rhymes- WANNABE12
- ASTROLABE11
- SABE6
- KAYFABE19
- MABE8
- NABE6
- AUFGABE13
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