yoghourt

Questions about yoghourt

What does yoghourt mean?

yoghourt means "a custard-like food made from curdled milk".

How many syllables are in yoghourt?

yoghourt has 2 syllables and divides as yog-hourt 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 yoghourt?

Close synonyms include yogurt, yoghurt. 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 yoghourt a common word?

yoghourt 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.