Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

currywurst

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 1.62 in modern English

Syllables: cur-ry-wurst
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A German national dish consisting of hot pork sausage cut into slices and seasoned with curry ketchup.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

Borrowed from German Currywurst, from Curry + Wurst (“sausage”). By surface analysis, curry + wurst.

Origin

Source language: German

Word Breakdown

Root: Currywurst

Usage

Inflected Forms

currywursts (plural)

Questions

What does currywurst mean?: A German national dish consisting of hot pork sausage cut into slices and seasoned with curry ketchup.
Where does currywurst come from?: It is traced to German.

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