breadstuff

Other forms of breadstuff

plural

breadstuffs·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about breadstuff

What does breadstuff mean?

breadstuff means "food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in breadstuff?

breadstuff has 3 syllables: bre-ad-stuff. The stress falls on "bre".

What is another word for breadstuff?

Close synonyms include bread, staff of life. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is breadstuff a common word?

breadstuff is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.