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Yes. The word fondue is a Scrabble US word. The word fondue is worth 10 points in Scrabble:

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6-letter words (1 found)

FONDUE,

5-letter words (3 found)

FONDU,FOUND,UNFED,

4-letter words (19 found)

DEFO,DOEN,DONE,DOUN,DUNE,ENUF,FEND,FEOD,FEUD,FOEN,FOND,FONE,FOUD,FUND,NODE,NUDE,UDON,UNDE,UNDO,

3-letter words (26 found)

DEF,DEN,DOE,DOF,DON,DUE,DUN,DUO,END,EON,FED,FEN,FEU,FOE,FON,FOU,FUD,FUN,NED,NEF,NOD,ODE,ONE,OUD,UDO,UFO,

2-letter words (16 found)

DE,DO,ED,EF,EN,FE,FU,NE,NO,NU,OD,OE,OF,ON,OU,UN,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 66 words from fondue according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of fondue

fondue

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French fondue (“melted”), from fondre (“to melt”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈfɒnduː/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /fɑnˈdu/

Noun

fondue (countable and uncountable, plural fondues)

  1. A dish made of melted cheese, or chocolate etc., or of a boiling liquid into which food can be dipped.

Derived terms

  • fondue fork

Translations

Verb

fondue (third-person singular simple present fondues, present participle fonduing or fondueing, simple past and past participle fondued)

  1. To prepare or serve as a fondue.

See also

  • fondue on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Related terms

  • fondant
  • fondu

Anagrams

  • founde

Finnish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfondyː/, [ˈfo̞ndyː]

Noun

fondue

  1. Alternative form of fondyy.

Declension

or

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “fondue”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

French

Etymology

From fondre.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fɔ̃.dy/

Adjective

fondue

  1. feminine singular of fondu

Noun

fondue f (plural fondues)

  1. fondue

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → English: fondue
  • → Polish: fondue
  • → Portuguese: fondue
  • → Romanian: fondue
  • → Spanish: fondue
  • → Turkish: fondü

Further reading

  • “fondue”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Norman

Adjective

fondue

  1. feminine singular of fondu

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French fondue.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fɔw̃ˈdi/
  • Rhymes: -ɔw̃di
  • Syllabification: fon‧due

Noun

fondue n (indeclinable)

  1. fondue (Swiss melted cheese and wine dish served in a communal pot (caquelon or fondue pot) over a portable stove (réchaud) heated with a candle or spirit lamp, and eaten by dipping bread and sometimes vegetables into the cheese using long-stemmed forks)

Further reading

  • fondue in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • fondue in PWN's encyclopedia

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French fondue.

Pronunciation

  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /fõˈdy/

Noun

fondue m or f (plural fondues)

  1. fondue (dish of molten cheese)

References

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French fondue.

Noun

fondue f (plural fondue)

  1. fondue (dish)

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French fondue.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fonˈdu/ [fõn̪ˈd̪u]
  • Rhymes: -u

Noun

fondue f (plural fondues)

  1. fondue (dish)

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Further reading

  • “fondue”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Swedish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French fondue.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fɔnˈdyː/
  • Hyphenation: fon‧due
  • Rhymes: -yː

Noun

fondue c

  1. fondue

Declension

References

  • fondue in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • fondue in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Source: wiktionary.org