suet

1. 1.

   hard fat around the kidneys and loins in beef and sheep

   Broaderedible fat

Other forms of suet

plural

suets·

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.

Questions about suet

What does suet mean?

suet means "hard fat around the kidneys and loins in beef and sheep".

How many syllables are in suet?

suet has 1 syllable: suet.

Is suet a common word?

suet 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.