pastry

Other forms of pastry

plural

pastries·

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 pastry

What does pastry mean?

pastry means "a dough of flour and water and shortening". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pastry?

pastry has 2 syllables: pa-stry. The stress falls on "pa". In IPA it is /ˈpeɪstɹi/.

What is another word for pastry?

Close synonyms include pastry dough. 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 pastry a common word?

pastry 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.