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airbrushed

adjective, verb

airbrushed is spelled A-I-R-B-R-U-S-H-E-D: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 56,788th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, airbrushed means “Having been manipulated with an airbrush” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in airbrushed?

Letters10: A-I-R-B-R-U-S-H-E-D
In writingabout once in every 4 million words; the 56,788th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is airbrushed?

Airbrushed appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 56,788th 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).

Forms of airbrushed

  • more airbrushed comparative
  • most airbrushed superlative

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

What does airbrushed mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    Having been manipulated with an airbrush.

  2. 2

    Having had imperfections and blemishes removed through digital manipulation.

verb

  1. 1

    simple past and past participle of airbrush (a form of airbrush)

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

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