seasoning

noun, verb

seasoning is spelled S-E-A-S-O-N-I-N-G: 9 letters and 3 syllables. It appears 1.9 times per million words in written English, the 20,101st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, seasoning means “Something used to add taste or flavour to food, such as salt and pepper or other condiment, herb or spice” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of seasoning is seasonings.

How many letters and syllables are in seasoning?

Letters	9: S-E-A-S-O-N-I-N-G
Syllables	3 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing	1.9 times per million words; the 20,101st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched	none 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 seasoning?

Seasoning appears 1.9 times per million words in written English, the 20,101st most frequent word form in the list.

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Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce seasoning?

Seasoning has 3 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-seasoning.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of seasoning

seasonings plural

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

What does seasoning mean?

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

noun

1
Something used to add taste or flavour to food, such as salt and pepper or other condiment, herb or spice.
2
Anything added to increase enjoyment.
3
A coat of polymerized oil inside a cooking vessel which renders the surface non-stick.
4
archaicAn alcoholic intoxication.
Some of our gentlemen officers, happening to stop at a tavern, or rather a sort of grogshop, took such a seasoning that two or three of them became “quite frisky.”
5
In diamond-cutting, the charging of the laps or wheels with diamond dust and oil.
6
The air drying of wood.

verb

1
present participle and gerund of season (a form of season)

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

Seasoning in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

Language	Words
French	assaisonnement, épice (cooking ingredient), culottage (add fat layer to cookware), sèchage (air drying of wood)
German	Gewürz, Würze (cooking ingredient), lagern zum Trocknen, Ablagern (air drying of wood)
Portuguese	tempero, condimento (cooking ingredient), condicionar (air drying of wood)
Spanish	aliño, condimento, sazonante, sazonador (cooking ingredient), curado (add fat layer to cookware), secado (air drying of wood)

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.