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Syllable division and stress derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
zwieback is a noun meaning "slice of sweet raised bread baked again until it is brown and hard and crisp". It carries one recorded sense.
slice of sweet raised bread baked again until it is brown and hard and crisp
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for zwieback come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.