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garba

noun

garba is spelled G-A-R-B-A: 5 letters. It appears about once in every 8 million words in written English, the 82,325th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, garba means “A form of dance from the state of Gujarat in India, performed in a circle often around a lamp” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of garba is garbas.

How many letters and syllables are in garba?

Letters5: G-A-R-B-A
In writingabout once in every 8 million words; the 82,325th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is garba?

Garba appears about once in every 8 million words in written English, the 82,325th 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).

What rhymes with garba?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as garba.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: gabra.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of garba

  • garbas plural

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

What does garba mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A form of dance from the state of Gujarat in India, performed in a circle often around a lamp.

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

Where does garba come from?

Borrowed from Gujarati ગરબા (garbā). Doublet of Delphos.

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

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