# gibberish

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈd͡ʒɪ.bə.ɹɪʃ/ · frequency rank #30,061

## Definitions
1. Speech or writing that is unintelligible, incoherent or meaningless.
2. Needlessly obscure or overly technical language.
3. A language game, comparable to pig Latin, in which one inserts a nonsense syllable before the first vowel in each syllable of a word.

## Etymology
First attested mid-16th century. Origin obscure. Possibly from *gibber, of onomatopoeic origin imitating to the sound of chatter, possibly from or influenced by jabber, + -ish denoting the name of a language (compare English, Finnish, Spanish, etc.). The verb gibber, first attested circa 1600, is usually regarded as a back-formation from gibberish.

## Common misspellings (12)
`gbiberish`, `ggibberish`, `gibbeirsh`, `gibberihs`, `gibberishh`, `gibberissh`, `gibberrish`, `gibbersih`, `gibbreish`, `gibebrish`, `giberish`, `igbberish`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/gibberish