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jalfrezi

noun

jalfrezi is spelled J-A-L-F-R-E-Z-I: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 59 million words in written English, the 240,237th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, jalfrezi means “A Bengali curry made with onion, tomato and capsicum given added heat by the addition of green chillis” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of jalfrezi is jalfrezis.

How many letters and syllables are in jalfrezi?

Letters8: J-A-L-F-R-E-Z-I
In writingabout once in every 59 million words; the 240,237th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is jalfrezi?

Jalfrezi appears about once in every 59 million words in written English, the 240,237th 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).

Forms of jalfrezi

  • jalfrezis plural
  • jalfrazi
  • jhalfrezi

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does jalfrezi mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A Bengali curry made with onion, tomato and capsicum given added heat by the addition of green chillis

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does jalfrezi come from?

From Bengali ঝালফ্রেজী (jhalfreji).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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