nougat

1. 1.

   nuts or fruit pieces in a sugar paste

   Broadercandy

Other forms of nougat

plural

nougats·

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 nougat

What does nougat mean?

nougat means "nuts or fruit pieces in a sugar paste".

How many syllables are in nougat?

nougat has 2 syllables: nou-gat. The stress falls on "nou".

Is nougat a common word?

nougat 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.