ready-to-eat

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   food products that are prepared in advance and can be eaten as sold

   Similarready-made

Questions about ready-to-eat

What does ready-to-eat mean?

ready-to-eat means "food products that are prepared in advance and can be eaten as sold".

How many syllables are in ready-to-eat?

ready-to-eat has 6 syllables and divides as re-a-dy--to--e-at 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 ready-to-eat a common word?

ready-to-eat 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.