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garnishing

noun, verb

garnishing is spelled G-A-R-N-I-S-H-I-N-G: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 12 million words in written English, the 102,771st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, garnishing means “Something added as a garnish” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of garnishing is garnishings.

How many letters and syllables are in garnishing?

Letters10: G-A-R-N-I-S-H-I-N-G
In writingabout once in every 12 million words; the 102,771st 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 garnishing?

Garnishing appears about once in every 12 million words in written English, the 102,771st 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 garnishing

  • garnishings plural

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

What does garnishing mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Something added as a garnish.

    a dish with various sauces and garnishings

verb

  1. 1

    present participle and gerund of garnish (a form of garnish)

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

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