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synth

/sɪnθ/noun, verb, adjective

synth is spelled S-Y-N-T-H: 5 letters. It appears 2.2 times per million words in written English, the 18,297th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, synth means “A musical synthesizer” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of synth is synths.

How many letters and syllables are in synth?

Letters5: S-Y-N-T-H
In writing2.2 times per million words; the 18,297th 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 synth?

Synth appears 2.2 times per million words in written English, the 18,297th 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 synth?

  • /sɪnθ/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-synth.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of synth

  • synths plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • synthing participle, present
  • synthed participle, past
  • syn

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

What does synth mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    slangA musical synthesizer.

  2. 2

    A synthetic humanoid, an android, a robot, a clone

  3. 3

    slangA fictional reptilian android species.

verb

  1. 1

    slangTo play on a musical synthesizer.

  2. 2

    Synonym of synthesize.

adjective

  1. 1

    Abbreviation of synthetic.

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

Where does synth come from?

Clipping of synthesizer.

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

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