garment
gar·ment/ˈɡɑɹmənt/noun, verb
garment is spelled G-A-R-M-E-N-T, 2 syllables: gar·ment. The wrong spelling people search most is garmet: about 120 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Garment is a noun meaning “A single article of clothing”. The plural of garment is garments.
How many letters and syllables are in garment?
| Letters | 7: G-A-R-M-E-N-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: gar·ment |
| In writing | 3.9 times per million words; the 13,127th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, garmet, about 120 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell garment?
Garment is spelled G-A-R-M-E-N-T. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for garment in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is garment?
Garment appears 3.9 times per million words in written English, the 13,127th 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 garment?
- UK /ˈɡɑːmənt/
- UK [ˈɡɑːmənt] ~ [ˈɡɑːmn̩t]
- US /ˈɡɑɹmənt/
Garment has 2 syllables, split gar·ment in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-garment.oga, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of garment
- garments plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- garmenting participle, present
- garmented participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does garment mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A single article of clothing.
- 2
The visible exterior in which a thing is invested or embodied.
- 3
Ellipsis of temple garment.
verb
- 1
To clothe in a garment.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Garment in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense single item of clothing:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | vêtement |
| German | Kleidungsstück |
| Portuguese | peça de roupa, roupa, veste, indumento |
| Spanish | prenda, prenda de vestir, pilcha, peindra (disused), vestimenta |
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 garment come from?
From Middle English garment, garement, garnement, from Old French garnement, guarnement, from Old French garnir, guarnir (“to protect, fortify, clothe, garnish, adorn”), from Frankish *warnijan (“to ward off, refuse, deny”). More at English garnish.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).