garnish

Other forms of garnish

plural

garnishes·

past tense

garnished·

present participle

garnishing·

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 garnish

What does garnish mean?

garnish means "something (such as parsley) added to a dish for flavor or decoration". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in garnish?

garnish has 2 syllables: gar-nish. The stress falls on "gar". In IPA it is /ˈɡɑɹnɪʃ/.

What is another word for garnish?

Close synonyms include garnishee, trim, dress. 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 garnish a common word?

garnish is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.