garner
/ˈɡɑːɹ.nɚ/noun, verb
garner is spelled G-A-R-N-E-R: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 3.5 times per million words in written English, the 13,897th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, garner means “A granary; a store of grain” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of garner is garners.
How many letters and syllables are in garner?
| Letters | 6: G-A-R-N-E-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 3.5 times per million words; the 13,897th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; 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 garner?
Garner appears 3.5 times per million words in written English, the 13,897th 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 garner?
- UK /ˈɡɑː.nə/
- US /ˈɡɑːɹ.nɚ/
Garner has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-uk-garner.ogg, En-us-garner.ogg, En-au-garner.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with garner?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as garner (/ɑɹnəɹ/).
Spelled with the same letters in another order: ranger.
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 garner
- garners plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- garnering participle, present
- garnered participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does garner mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A granary; a store of grain.
- 2
An accumulation, supply, store, or hoard of something.
verb
- 1
To reap grain, gather it up, and store it in a granary.
- 2
To gather, amass, hoard, as if harvesting grain.
He garnered the fruit of his studies in seven volumes.
- 3
To earn; to get; to accumulate or acquire (attitudes, reputations, or actions from others) by some effort or due to some fact
To garner support
- 4
rareTo gather or become gathered; to accumulate or become accumulated; to become stored.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Garner in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | grenier , engranger |
| German | Magazin, Reservoir, Speicher, Vorratsraum , aufspeichern , einfahren |
| Portuguese | celeiro |
| Spanish | recabar, recabdar |
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 garner come from?
From Middle English gerner, from Old French gernier, guernier, variant of grenier, from Latin grānārium (“granary”). Doublet of granary.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).