chiffonade
/ʃɪfəˈnɑːd/noun, verb
chiffonade is a noun meaning “A culinary preparation of herbs or leafy vegetables cut into long, thin ribbons” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-H-I-F-F-O-N-A-D-E, and it appears about once in every 95 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of chiffonade is chiffonades.
What does chiffonade mean?
noun
- 1
A culinary preparation of herbs or leafy vegetables cut into long, thin ribbons.
verb
- 1
To prepare a chiffonade.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce chiffonade?
- /ʃɪfəˈnɑːd/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-chiffonade.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of chiffonade
- chiffonades plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- chiffonading participle, present
- chiffonaded participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is chiffonade?
Chiffonade appears about once in every 95 million words in written English, the 313,259th 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).
Where does chiffonade come from?
Borrowed from French chiffonade.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).