genoise

1. 1.

   rich and delicate Italian sponge cake

   Broadercake

Other forms of genoise

plural

genoises·

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 genoise

What does genoise mean?

genoise means "rich and delicate Italian sponge cake".

How many syllables are in genoise?

genoise has 2 syllables: ge-noise. The stress falls on "ge".

Is genoise a common word?

genoise 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.