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sherbet

/ˈʃɝ.bət/noun

sherbet is spelled S-H-E-R-B-E-T: 7 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 52,954th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “sherbert vs sherbet” about 9,900 times a month (Google, United States). As a noun, sherbet means “A dessert of frozen fruit juice with a dairy product such as milk added; a sorbet with dairy ingredients” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of sherbet is sherbets.

How many letters and syllables are in sherbet?

Letters7: S-H-E-R-B-E-T
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 3 million words; the 52,954th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Pairs people search
Rhymes with

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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is sherbet?

Sherbet appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 52,954th 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 sherbet?

  • UK /ˈʃɜː.bət/
  • UK /ˈʃɜː.bɪt/
  • US /ˈʃɝ.bət/

Sherbet 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: En-us-sherbet.ogg, En-au-sherbet.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with sherbet

Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).

sherbert vs sherbet9,900 G

Also written: sherbert.

Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

What rhymes with sherbet?

One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as sherbet from its last stressed vowel (/ɜɹbət/):

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of sherbet

  • sherbets plural
  • sherbert US

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

What does sherbet mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A dessert of frozen fruit juice with a dairy product such as milk added; a sorbet with dairy ingredients.

  2. 2

    An effervescent powder made of bicarbonate of soda, sugar and flavourings, intended to be eaten alone or mixed with water to make a drink.

  3. 3

    A traditional West and South Asian sweet drink prepared from fruits or flower petals.

    Tea is becoming a favourite drink in Turkey, not instead of coffee, but of the sherbet or cool drinks that are handed to guests; it comes generally from Russia, and although a trifle dear on account of the carriage, is extremely good, when

  4. 4

    AustraliaUKslangAn alcoholic drink, especially beer.

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

Sherbet in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchsorbet, sorbet laitier (frozen fruit juice), sherbet, sharbat, serbet (sweet drink prepared from fruits or flower…)
GermanSorbet, Scherbet, Fruchteis (frozen fruit juice), Brausepulver (powder)
Portuguesesorvete, sorbet (frozen fruit juice)
Spanishsorbete (frozen fruit juice), polvo acidulado (powder)

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 sherbet come from?

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish شربت (şerbet), borrowed from Classical Persian شَرْبَت (šarbat), borrowed from Arabic شَرْبَة (šarba), from شَرِبَ (šariba). Doublet of sorbet and sharbat, related to syrup.

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

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