patty-pan

1. 1.

   a pan for cooking patties or pasties

   Broaderpan

Questions about patty-pan

What does patty-pan mean?

patty-pan means "a pan for cooking patties or pasties".

How many syllables are in patty-pan?

patty-pan has 3 syllables and divides as pat-ty--pan 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 patty-pan a common word?

patty-pan 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.