garble

Questions about garble

What does garble mean?

garble means "make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story".

How many syllables are in garble?

garble has 2 syllables: gar-ble. The stress falls on "gar". In IPA it is /ˈɡɑɹbəl/.

What is another word for garble?

Close synonyms include falsify, distort, warp. 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 garble a common word?

garble 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.