Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

kummelweck

/ˈkuməlvɛk/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: kum-mel-weck
IPA: /ˈkuməlvɛk/

27

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A bread roll (typically a Kaiser roll) sprinkled with koshering salt and caraway seeds, often served with thinly sliced roast beef, popular in western New York.

Example Sentences

"This is perfect for a large cocktail party served with small kummelweck rolls."
"Beef on weck, Mr. Stern said, is one of the great roast beef sandwiches in the country — very thinly sliced rare roast beef on a bulky hard roll, also called a kummelweck, topped with big-grained salt and caraway seeds."

Etymology

From German Kümmel (“caraway”), Weck (“roll”) (in south-western dialects).

Origin

Source language: German

Word Breakdown

Root: Kümmel

Inflected Forms

kimmelweck (alternative) kümmelweck (alternative)

Synonyms

weck

Questions

How do you pronounce kummelweck?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈkuməlvɛk/.
What does kummelweck mean?: A bread roll (typically a Kaiser roll) sprinkled with koshering salt and caraway seeds, often served with thinly sliced roast beef, popular in western New York.
Where does kummelweck come from?: It is traced to German.

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