Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

vegetable shortening

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.09 in modern English

Syllables: veg-etable short-en-ing
IPA

29

Scrabble Score

19

Letters

4

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A type of vegetable fat used in cooking as an alternative to butter or other animal fats.

Countable; Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

vegetable shortenings (plural)

Questions

What does vegetable shortening mean?: A type of vegetable fat used in cooking as an alternative to butter or other animal fats.

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