confit

1. 1.

   a piece of meat (especially a duck) cooked slowly in its own fat

   Broadercut

Other forms of confit

plural

confits·

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 confit

What does confit mean?

confit means "a piece of meat (especially a duck) cooked slowly in its own fat".

How many syllables are in confit?

confit has 2 syllables: con-fit. The stress falls on "con".

Is confit a common word?

confit 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.