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imitation crab

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.29 in modern English

Syllables
im-i-ta-tion crab
IPA
19
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A processed seafood product designed to look, taste, and feel like real crab meat, containing no actual crab meat (or only a trace amount for flavor); primarily made of surimi (a pulverized white fish paste blended with starch, egg whites, sugar, and crab flavoring).

Uncountable

Usage

Questions

What does imitation crab mean?
A processed seafood product designed to look, taste, and feel like real crab meat, containing no actual crab meat (or only a trace amount for flavor); primarily made of surimi (a pulverized white fish paste blended with starch, egg whites, sugar, and crab flavoring).

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