pan-fry

1. 1.

   fry in a pan

   “pan-fry the dumplings”

   Broaderfry

   cooking

Questions about pan-fry

What does pan-fry mean?

pan-fry means "fry in a pan".

How many syllables are in pan-fry?

pan-fry has 2 syllables and divides as pan--fry under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is pan-fry a common word?

pan-fry 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.