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jabbering

noun, verb

jabbering is spelled J-A-B-B-E-R-I-N-G: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 10 million words in written English, the 94,827th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, jabbering means “Speech that jabbers; gibberish” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of jabbering is jabberings.

How many letters and syllables are in jabbering?

Letters9: J-A-B-B-E-R-I-N-G
In writingabout once in every 10 million words; the 94,827th 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 jabbering?

Jabbering appears about once in every 10 million words in written English, the 94,827th 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 jabbering?

  • US

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-jabbering.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of jabbering

  • jabberings plural

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

What does jabbering mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Speech that jabbers; gibberish.

verb

  1. 1

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

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

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