Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

ratatouille

/ɹæt.əˈtuː.i/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.52 in modern English

Syllables: rata-touille
IPA: /ɹæt.əˈtuː.i/

11

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A traditional French Provençal stewed vegetable dish consisting primarily of tomatoes, zucchini and eggplant.

Countable; Uncountable

verb

To control someone as though they were a puppet.

Example Sentences

"I expected the open-air markets, but defrosted bouillabaisse and canned ratatouille weren’t what I imagined to be staples of Parisian culinary life. Yet they’ve become mainstays."
"You know that worm in R.F.K. Junior's brain that we all assume has been ratatouilling him around this whole time?"

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French ratatouille, from Occitan ratatolha (ratatouille is a dish originally from Nice, and is also found in Provence), French form from diminutive prefix tat- + touiller (“to stir”), from Latin tudiculō (“grind, mix”), from tudes (“hammer”), from Proto-Indo-European *tud-, from *(s)tewd-.

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: ratatolha, tudiculō, *tud-

Usage

Inflected Forms

ratatouilles (plural) ratatouilles (present, singular) ratatouilling (participle, present) ratatouilled (participle, past) ratatouilled (past)

Rhymes With

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Questions

How do you pronounce ratatouille?: The recorded pronunciation is /ɹæt.əˈtuː.i/.
What does ratatouille mean?: A traditional French Provençal stewed vegetable dish consisting primarily of tomatoes, zucchini and eggplant.
Where does ratatouille come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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