Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

soup-bowlful

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.46 in modern English

Syllables: soup-bowl-ful
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Enough to fill a soup bowl.

Example Sentences

"Serve big soup-bowlfuls of this stuff."
"The recipe below, which he uses in his restaurant, was his great-grandfather’s and incorporates his grandmother’s method for working out how much water to use: two soup-bowlsful of the size you are going to serve per person, plus one for the pot."
"So here I am with my daily cup (or rather soup-bowlful!) of cacao hot chocolate, ready to welcome you to book two, Coconut Oil: Recipes for Real Life."

Etymology

From soup bowl + -ful.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: soup bowl

Inflected Forms

soup-bowlfuls (plural) soup-bowlsful (plural) soupbowlful (alternative)

Questions

What does soup-bowlful mean?: Enough to fill a soup bowl.
Where does soup-bowlful come from?: From soup bowl + -ful.

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