dessert

Other forms of dessert

plural

desserts·

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 dessert

What does dessert mean?

dessert means "a dish served as the last course of a meal".

How many syllables are in dessert?

dessert has 2 syllables: des-sert. The stress falls on "sert". In IPA it is /dɪˈzɝt/.

What is another word for dessert?

Close synonyms include sweet, afters. 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 dessert a common word?

dessert is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with dessert?

1 word rhymes with dessert. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.