truffle

Other forms of truffle

plural

truffles·

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 truffle

What does truffle mean?

truffle means "any of various highly prized edible subterranean fungi of the genus Tuber; grow naturally in southwestern Europe". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in truffle?

truffle has 2 syllables: truf-fle. The stress falls on "truf". In IPA it is /ˈtɹʌfəl/.

What is another word for truffle?

Close synonyms include earthnut, earth-ball, earthnut, chocolate truffle. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is truffle a common word?

truffle is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.