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airbrushing

noun, verb

airbrushing is spelled A-I-R-B-R-U-S-H-I-N-G: 11 letters. It appears about once in every 7 million words in written English, the 78,613th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, airbrushing means “The use of an airbrush; work done with an airbrush” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of airbrushing is airbrushings.

How many letters and syllables are in airbrushing?

Letters11: A-I-R-B-R-U-S-H-I-N-G
In writingabout once in every 7 million words; the 78,613th 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 airbrushing?

Airbrushing appears about once in every 7 million words in written English, the 78,613th 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 airbrushing

  • airbrushings plural

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

What does airbrushing mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The use of an airbrush; work done with an airbrush.

verb

  1. 1

    present participle and gerund 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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