bialy
/biˈæl.i/noun
bialy is a noun meaning “A flat bread roll topped with onion flakes. Instead of a hole like a bagel, it has a depression in the middle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled B-I-A-L-Y and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 40 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of bialy is bialys or bialies.
What does bialy mean?
noun
- 1
A flat bread roll topped with onion flakes. Instead of a hole like a bagel, it has a depression in the middle.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce bialy?
- /biˈæl.i/
Bialy has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-bialy.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of bialy
- bialys plural
- bialies plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is bialy?
Bialy appears about once in every 40 million words in written English, the 194,306th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).