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 and divides as po-t-a-u--feu 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 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.