kolache
/kəˈlɑːt͡ʃi/noun
kolache is a noun meaning “A pastry consisting of a filling (typically fruit or cheese) inside a bread roll, popular in the United States” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled K-O-L-A-C-H-E, and it appears about once in every 48 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of kolache is kolaches.
What does kolache mean?
noun
- 1
A pastry consisting of a filling (typically fruit or cheese) inside a bread roll, popular in the United States.
- 2
USA klobasnek
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce kolache?
- US /kəˈlɑːt͡ʃi/
- US /ˈkoʊlɑːt͡ʃi/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of kolache
- kolaches plural
- kolace
- kolacky
- kolachi
- kolachy
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is kolache?
Kolache appears about once in every 48 million words in written English, the 214,628th 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 kolache come from?
Borrowed from Czech koláče and Slovak koláče, plural of koláč. Doublet of kalach and kolach.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).