escarole

Questions about escarole

What does escarole mean?

escarole means "variety of endive having leaves with irregular frilled edges".

How many syllables are in escarole?

escarole has 4 syllables and divides as e-sca-ro-le 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 escarole?

Close synonyms include chicory escarole, endive. 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 escarole a common word?

escarole is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.