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garden

gar·den/ˈɡɑɹ.d(ə)n/noun, verb, adjective

garden is spelled G-A-R-D-E-N: 6 letters and 2 syllables (gar·den). It appears 59 times per million words in written English, the 1,758th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, garden means “An outdoor area containing one or more types of plants, usually plants grown for food or ornamental purposes” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of garden is gardens.

How many letters and syllables are in garden?

Letters6: G-A-R-D-E-N
Syllables2: gar·den
In writing59 times per million words; the 1,758th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with
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 garden?

Garden appears 59 times per million words in written English, the 1,758th 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).

How do you pronounce garden?

  • UK /ˈɡɑː.d(ə)n/
  • US /ˈɡɑɹ.d(ə)n/
  • Australia /ˈɡäː.d(ə)n/

Garden has 2 syllables, split gar·den in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-uk-garden.ogg, En-us-garden.ogg, En-au-garden.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with garden?

2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as garden from its last stressed vowel (/ɑɹdn/):

Spelled with the same letters in another order: danger, grande, ranged, gander.

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 garden

  • gardens plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • gardening participle, present
  • gardened participle, past

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

What does garden mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    An outdoor area containing one or more types of plants, usually plants grown for food or ornamental purposes.

    flower garden; herb garden; rose garden; vegetable garden

  2. 2

    Such an ornamental place to which the public have access.

    You can spend the afternoon walking around the town gardens.

  3. 3

    Taking place in, or used in, such a garden.

    garden party; garden path; garden spade

  4. 4

    An ornamental garden featuring plants and other features to attract, house, conserve, benefit and/or display certain animals.

    butterfly garden; wild bird garden

  5. 5

    IrelandUKThe grounds at the front or back of a house.

    This house has a swimming pool, a tent, a swing set and a fountain in the garden.

  6. 6

    A road, street, or similar thoroughfare, which sometimes occupies a former garden.

    32 Windsor Gardens.

  7. 7

    The twentieth Lenormand card.

  8. 8

    A cluster; a bunch.

verb

  1. 1

    To grow plants in a garden; to create or maintain a garden.

    I love to garden–this year I'm going to plant some daffodils.

  2. 2

    Of a batsman, to inspect and tap the pitch lightly with the bat so as to smooth out small rough patches and irregularities.

  3. 3

    slangTo smoke marijuana.

adjective

  1. 1

    Common, ordinary, domesticated.

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

How do you abbreviate garden?

Wiktionary records one abbreviation of garden: gdn.

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

Garden in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchjardin (piece of land outside with flowers and plants), jardin public, parc (gardens with public access), jardiner (grow plants)
GermanGarten, Garte, Goatn, Gartn (piece of land outside with flowers and plants), gärtnern (grow plants)
Portuguesejardim (piece of land outside with flowers and plants), parque (gardens with public access), jardinar (grow plants), quintal (grounds at the front or back of a house), brenha, matagal (slang: the pubic hair)
Spanishjardín, parterre, pensil, pénsil, arriate (piece of land outside with flowers and plants), huerto (a vegetable garden – see also orchard, vineyard)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does garden come from?

From Middle English gardyn, garden, from Anglo-Norman gardin, from Frankish *gardin-, oblique stem of *gardō (“enclosure, yard”), from Proto-Germanic *gardô (“enclosure, garden, house”), whence also inherited English yard. (compare Old French jart alongside jardin, Medieval Latin gardīnus). Doublet of jardin and of garth. Displaced Old English wyrttūn.

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

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