gravy

Other forms of gravy

plural

gravies·

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 gravy

What does gravy mean?

gravy means "a sauce made by adding stock, flour, or other ingredients to the juice and fat that drips from cooking meats". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in gravy?

gravy has 2 syllables: gra-vy. The stress falls on "gra". In IPA it is /ˈɡɹeɪvi/.

What is another word for gravy?

Close synonyms include pan gravy, boom, bonanza, gold rush, godsend. 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 gravy a common word?

gravy 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.