pulla
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.53 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A sweet, leavened baked good made of wheat and flavored with crushed cardamom, resembling very soft bread in consistency, eaten in Finland.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- ""Then we would all have coffee and pulla bread," recalled Hilma Wainio of Spencer."
- "Other locally made items include pulla, a foot-long braided bread flavored with cardamom and priced at $6 a loaf, and wood carvings."
- "Pulla is a braided yeast loaf, flavored with freshly ground cardamom and sprinkled with chopped almonds and sugar […]"
- "I remember the best, the years on the farm, wild roses and mushrooms that you picked near the pasture, cardamom pulla warm from the oven, […]"
- "Come on, your dad's grabbed us all some pullas and cider."
- "You can expect to be served a slice of pulla with your afternoon coffee in any Finnish household."