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cawl

/kaʊl/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 1.46 in modern English

Syllables
cawl
IPA
/kaʊl/
9
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A traditional Welsh soup, typically made with beef, lamb, or salted bacon with carrot, leeks, potatoes, swedes, and other seasonal vegetables.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

Alternative spelling of caul (“a membrane or veil, especially over a baby's head”).

Etymology

Borrowed from Welsh cawl, itself borrowed from Latin caulis (“stalk or stem of a plant, particularly a cabbage”), from Proto-Indo-European *kaw(ǝ)l, *kh₂ulós, or *kowos (“tubular bone; pipe”). The English word is a doublet of caulis, cole, and kale.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Regional Pronunciation

  • American English: /kaʊl/
  • British English: /kaʊl/

Usage

Inflected Forms

cawls (plural)

Homonyms

cowl call

Rhymes With

foul towel powell owl bowel vowel howl growl fowl neither fish nor fowl cowl prowl

Questions

How do you pronounce cawl?
The recorded pronunciation is /kaʊl/.
What does cawl mean?
A traditional Welsh soup, typically made with beef, lamb, or salted bacon with carrot, leeks, potatoes, swedes, and other seasonal vegetables.
Where does cawl come from?
It is traced to Welsh.

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