gabfest

Other forms of gabfest

plural

gabfests·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about gabfest

What does gabfest mean?

gabfest means "light informal conversation for social occasions".

How many syllables are in gabfest?

gabfest has 2 syllables and divides as gab-fest under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for gabfest?

Close synonyms include chitchat, chit-chat, chit chat, small talk, gab. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gabfest a common word?

gabfest is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.