french fritter

1. 1.

   a deep-fried, yeast-raised doughnut dusted with confectioners' sugar

   Synonymsbeignet

   Broaderfriedcake

Questions about french fritter

What does french fritter mean?

french fritter means "a deep-fried, yeast-raised doughnut dusted with confectioners' sugar".

What is another word for french fritter?

Close synonyms include beignet. 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 french fritter a common word?

french fritter 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.