Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

summer soup

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.11 in modern English

Syllables
sum-mer -soup
IPA
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A soup suitable for serving chilled instead of hot as most soups are.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

A traditional Finnish soup of vegetables cooked in milk.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

Etymology

So named for being suitable to serve cold in the heat of summer. In the Finnish sense, Calque of Finnish kesäkeitto.

Usage

Subject

Wiktionary places this term in Food.

Inflected Forms

summer soups (plural)

Questions

What does summer soup mean?
A soup suitable for serving chilled instead of hot as most soups are.
Where does summer soup come from?
So named for being suitable to serve cold in the heat of summer. In the Finnish sense, Calque of Finnish kesäkeitto.

How to pronounce summer soup

  1. Open the pronunciation page — Open the Speakur entry for “summer soup”.
  2. Read the phonetic spelling — Read the IPA spelling () so you know which sounds to aim for.
  3. Play the audio — Click Play to hear reference audio for “summer soup”.
  4. Repeat and practice — Say “summer soup” aloud, matching stress and vowels until it feels natural.