soufflé
/suːˈfleɪ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 2.26 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A baked dish made from beaten egg whites and various other ingredients, usually prepared and served in a small earthenware bowl (ramekin).
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Setting the soufflés before us, the waitress warns that the ramekins are hot."
- "It is quite possible that the first attempt at souffléing potatoes may be a failure."
- "Our lockers were on the floor, gear intermixed in heaps, as if King Kong had souffléed the room with an eggbeater the size of the Eiffel Tower."
- "[Phyllis] Richman also criticized a French baby food cookbook that “would have mother spend her time stuffing trout and souffléing oranges for her toddler.”"
- "The July Revolution's promises have been fricasseed, liberties ground into salamis, the budget souffléd, republicans put up as marmalade, public order fried, politesse burned, and glory boiled."
- "Case pictured his pasty-faced mother talking her way out of being souffléd alive by pasty-faced nasties."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /suːˈfleɪ/
- British English: /ˈsuːfleɪ/