teriyaki

1. 1.

   beef or chicken or seafood marinated in spicy soy sauce and grilled or broiled

   Broaderdish

Other forms of teriyaki

plural

teriyakis·

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 teriyaki

What does teriyaki mean?

teriyaki means "beef or chicken or seafood marinated in spicy soy sauce and grilled or broiled".

How many syllables are in teriyaki?

teriyaki has 4 syllables: ter-i-ya-ki. The stress falls on "ya". In IPA it is /ˌtɛɹɪˈjɑki/.

Is teriyaki a common word?

teriyaki 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.