lutefisk
/ˈluːtəfɪsk/noun
lutefisk is a noun meaning “A traditional Nordic dish made from stockfish and soda lye” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled L-U-T-E-F-I-S-K, and it appears about once in every 23 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of lutefisk is lutefisks.
What does lutefisk mean?
noun
- 1
A traditional Nordic dish made from stockfish and soda lye.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce lutefisk?
- /ˈluːtəfɪsk/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-lutefisk.wav, En-us-lutefisk.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of lutefisk
- lutefisks plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is lutefisk?
Lutefisk appears about once in every 23 million words in written English, the 146,811th 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 lutefisk come from?
From Norwegian lutefisk, compare with Swedish lutfisk.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).