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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
spareribs is a noun meaning "baked or roasted with a spicy sauce". It carries 2 recorded senses.
baked or roasted with a spicy sauce
cut of pork from the rib section with most of the meat trimmed off
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for spareribs come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.