volaille

Other forms of volaille

plural

volailles·

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 volaille

What does volaille mean?

volaille means "the flesh of a chicken used for food".

How many syllables are in volaille?

volaille has 3 syllables and divides as vo-lai-lle 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.

What is another word for volaille?

Close synonyms include chicken, poulet. 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 volaille a common word?

volaille 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.