mincemeat

1. 1.

   spiced mixture of chopped raisins and apples and other ingredients with or without meat

   Broaderconcoction

Other forms of mincemeat

plural

mincemeats·

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 mincemeat

What does mincemeat mean?

mincemeat means "spiced mixture of chopped raisins and apples and other ingredients with or without meat".

How many syllables are in mincemeat?

mincemeat has 2 syllables: min-cemeat. The stress falls on "min". In IPA it is /ˈmɪnˌsmit/.

Is mincemeat a common word?

mincemeat is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.