Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

bánh xèo

/bɑːn sjaʊ/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ban-h x-eo
IPA: /bɑːn sjaʊ/

17

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Vietnamese fried pancake made of rice flour, water, and turmeric powder, stuffed with slivers of fatty pork, shrimp, diced green onion, and bean sprouts.

Example Sentences

"Ba hovers over a stove in the well-lit room, glancing when he hears the creak underfoot. “I’m making bánh xèo.” […] The smell of crisp crêpe, yellow with turmeric and heaped with glistening pork belly, shrimp, and bean sprouts, makes the acid simmer down in my stomach."

Etymology

From Vietnamese bánh xèo.

Origin

Source language: Vietnamese

Word Breakdown

Root: bánh xèo

Inflected Forms

bánh xèos (plural)

Questions

How do you pronounce bánh xèo?: The recorded pronunciation is /bɑːn sjaʊ/.
What does bánh xèo mean?: Vietnamese fried pancake made of rice flour, water, and turmeric powder, stuffed with slivers of fatty pork, shrimp, diced green onion, and bean sprouts.
Where does bánh xèo come from?: It is traced to Vietnamese.

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