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poissonnier

/ˈpwɑ.sɔn.jeɪ/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
pois-son-nier
IPA
/ˈpwɑ.sɔn.jeɪ/
13
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

In a large commercial kitchen, a cook tasked with preparing and cooking (and possibly selecting) fish and fish dishes.

Etymology

Borrowed from French poissonnier, from poisson (“fish”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

poissonniers (plural)

Questions

How do you pronounce poissonnier?
The recorded pronunciation is /ˈpwɑ.sɔn.jeɪ/.
What does poissonnier mean?
In a large commercial kitchen, a cook tasked with preparing and cooking (and possibly selecting) fish and fish dishes.
Where does poissonnier come from?
It is traced to French.

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