delicatessen

Other forms of delicatessen

plural

delicatessens·

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 delicatessen

What does delicatessen mean?

delicatessen means "ready-to-eat food products". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in delicatessen?

delicatessen has 5 syllables: del-i-ca-tes-sen. The stress falls on "tes". In IPA it is /ˌdɛlɪkəˈtɛsən/.

What is another word for delicatessen?

Close synonyms include delicatessen food, deli, food shop. 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 delicatessen a common word?

delicatessen 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.