pot-au-feu

1. 1.

   traditional French stew of vegetables and beef

   Broaderstew

Questions about pot-au-feu

What does pot-au-feu mean?

pot-au-feu means "traditional French stew of vegetables and beef".

How many syllables are in pot-au-feu?

pot-au-feu has 4 syllables: po-t-a-u--feu. The stress falls on "t-a".

Is pot-au-feu a common word?

pot-au-feu 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.