escallop

1. 1.

   bake in a sauce, milk, etc., often with breadcrumbs on top

   Synonymsscallop

   Broadercook

Other forms of escallop

plural

escallops·

past tense

escallopped·

present participle

escallopping·

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 escallop

What does escallop mean?

escallop means "edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells; served broiled or poached or in salads or cream sauces". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in escallop?

escallop has 3 syllables and divides as e-scal-lop under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for escallop?

Close synonyms include scallop, scollop, cutlet, scallop, scollop. 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 escallop a common word?

escallop is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.