how to pronounce gibberish

/ˈɡɪbɚɪʃ/

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the above transcription of gibberish is a detailed (narrow) transcription according to the rules of the International Phonetic Association; you can find a description of each symbol by clicking the phoneme buttons in the secction below.

gibberish is pronounced in three syllables

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ɡɪbɚɪʃ

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video examples of gibberish pronunciation

An example use of gibberish in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… will generate gibberish then there are …”

meanings of gibberish

noun:

  1. A language game, comparable to pig Latin, in which one inserts a nonsense syllable before the first vowel in each syllable of a word.
  2. Speech or writing that is unintelligible, incoherent or meaningless.
  3. Needlessly obscure or overly technical language.

adjective:

  1. Unintelligible, incoherent or meaningless.

gibberish frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word gibberish occurs in english on average 1 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics gibberish can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that gibberish can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;

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