fast-food
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "fast-food", 9-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Wiktionary, and usage frequency ranked against an open word-frequency list covering the top 100,000 English words. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "fast-food" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "fast-food" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
fast food is aEnglishnoun. It means: Restaurant food that is served quickly, often standardized and pre-prepared. Pronounced /ˈfæst ˈfuːd/.
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|---|---|
| Headword | fast food |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈfæst ˈfuːd/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The English entry for fast food is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈfæst ˈfuːd/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for fast food in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is fast food, spelled F-A-S-T- -F-O-O-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Restaurant food that is served quickly, often standardized and pre-prepared.
- 2A type of food that is quickly made, but of low nutritional value; junk food.
- 3Anything standardized, quickly available, and inexpensive, often, of low value.
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