fondue

Other forms of fondue

plural

fondues·

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 fondue

What does fondue mean?

fondue 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 fondue?

fondue has 2 syllables: fon-due. The stress falls on "due". In IPA it is /fɑndˈju/.

What is another word for fondue?

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

fondue 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.

What rhymes with fondue?

10 words rhyme with fondue. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.