sherbert
noun
sherbert is a noun meaning “Alternative form of sherbet (“food of frozen fruit juice with a dairy product added”)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-H-E-R-B-E-R-T and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 13 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of sherbert is sherberts.
What does sherbert mean?
noun
- 1
USproscribedAlternative form of sherbet (“food of frozen fruit juice with a dairy product added”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce sherbert?
Sherbert 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).
Forms of sherbert
- sherberts plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is sherbert?
Sherbert appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 106,501st 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).
Words people confuse with sherbert
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: sherbet.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).