sweeten

Other forms of sweeten

past tense

sweetenned·

present participle

sweetenning·

third person

sweetens·

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 sweeten

What does sweeten mean?

sweeten means "make sweeter in taste". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sweeten?

sweeten has 2 syllables: swee-ten. The stress falls on "swee". In IPA it is /ˈswitən/.

What is another word for sweeten?

Close synonyms include dulcify, edulcorate, dulcorate. 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.

What is the opposite of sweeten?

The recorded antonyms are sour.

Is sweeten a common word?

sweeten 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.