sweetening

Other forms of sweetening

plural

sweetenings·

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 sweetening

What does sweetening mean?

sweetening means "something added to foods to make them taste sweeter". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sweetening?

sweetening has 3 syllables: swee-te-ning. The stress falls on "swee". In IPA it is /ˈswitənɪŋ/.

What is another word for sweetening?

Close synonyms include sweetener, enhancement. 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 sweetening a common word?

sweetening 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.