sweetmeat

1. 1.

   a sweetened delicacy (as a preserve or pastry)

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Other forms of sweetmeat

plural

sweetmeats·

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 sweetmeat

What does sweetmeat mean?

sweetmeat means "a sweetened delicacy (as a preserve or pastry)".

How many syllables are in sweetmeat?

sweetmeat has 3 syllables and divides as swe-et-meat 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.