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giblet

/ˈd͡ʒɪblət/noun

giblet is spelled G-I-B-L-E-T: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 31 million words in written English, the 169,822nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, giblet means “The edible viscera of a bird” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of giblet is giblets.

How many letters and syllables are in giblet?

Letters6: G-I-B-L-E-T
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 31 million words; the 169,822nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is giblet?

Giblet appears about once in every 31 million words in written English, the 169,822nd 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 giblet?

  • /ˈd͡ʒɪblət/
  • /ˈɡɪblət/

Giblet 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-giblet.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of giblet

  • giblets plural

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

What does giblet mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The edible viscera of a bird.

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

Giblet in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense edible bird entrails:

LanguageWords
Frenchabat
GermanInnereien

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 giblet come from?

See giblets.

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

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