Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

sweetened

/swˈitənd/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.01 in modern English

Syllables: sweet-ened
IPA: /swˈitənd/

13

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

simple past and past participle of sweeten

adj

made to taste sweet

adj

containing sweetener

adj

made more appealing or more attractive with incentives

Etymology

From sweeten + -ed.

Inflected Forms

more sweetened (comparative) most sweetened (superlative)

Derived Forms

oversweetened presweetened unsweetened

Synonyms

sugared sweet sweet-flavored

Questions

How do you pronounce sweetened?: The recorded pronunciation is /swˈitənd/.
What does sweetened mean?: simple past and past participle of sweeten
Where does sweetened come from?: From sweeten + -ed.

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