yoghurt

Questions about yoghurt

What does yoghurt mean?

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

How many syllables are in yoghurt?

yoghurt has 2 syllables and divides as yog-hurt 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 yoghurt?

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

yoghurt 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.