Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

maltese sauce

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.01 in modern English

Syllables: mal-te-se sauce
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Hollandaise sauce with blanched orange zest and the juice of blood orange.

Uncountable

Etymology

From French sauce maltaise.

Origin

Source language: French

Word Breakdown

Root: sauce maltaise

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does maltese sauce mean?: Hollandaise sauce with blanched orange zest and the juice of blood orange.
Where does maltese sauce come from?: It is traced to French.

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