fondu

Other forms of fondu

plural

fondus·

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 fondu

What does fondu mean?

fondu means "cubes of meat or seafood cooked in hot oil and then dipped in any of various sauces". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fondu?

fondu has 2 syllables: fon-du. The stress falls on "fon".

What is another word for fondu?

Close synonyms include fondue, fondue. 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 fondu a common word?

fondu 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.