sweetener

1. 1.

   something added to foods to make them taste sweeter

   Synonymssweetening

   Broaderflavorer

   Narroweraspartamehoneysaccharinsugarsyrup
2. 2.

   anything that serves as an enticement

   Synonymsbaitcome-onhooklure

   Broadertemptation

Other forms of sweetener

plural

sweeteners·

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 sweetener

What does sweetener mean?

sweetener means "something added to foods to make them taste sweeter". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sweetener?

sweetener has 3 syllables: swee-te-ner. The stress falls on "swee". In IPA it is /ˈswitənɚ/.

What is another word for sweetener?

Close synonyms include sweetening, bait, come-on, hook, lure. 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 sweetener a common word?

sweetener is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.