sweetening
noun, verb
sweetening is a noun meaning “The process of making something sweeter” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-W-E-E-T-E-N-I-N-G and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 6 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of sweetening is sweetenings.
What does sweetening mean?
noun
- 1
The process of making something sweeter.
- 2
A sweetener.
Honey is the oldest of sweetenings.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of sweeten
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce sweetening?
Sweetening 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).
Forms of sweetening
- sweetenings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is sweetening?
Sweetening appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 71,529th 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).
Sweetening in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | édulcoration, adoucissement |
| Portuguese | edulcoração |
| Spanish | edulcoración, endulzadura |
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.