vol-au-vent

1. 1.

   puff paste shell filled with a savory meat mixture usually with a sauce

   Broaderpastry

Questions about vol-au-vent

What does vol-au-vent mean?

vol-au-vent means "puff paste shell filled with a savory meat mixture usually with a sauce".

How many syllables are in vol-au-vent?

vol-au-vent has 3 syllables and divides as vo-l-au--vent 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.

Is vol-au-vent a common word?

vol-au-vent is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.