orgeat
/ˈɔrʒɑːt/noun
orgeat is a noun meaning “A sweet syrup made from sugar and almonds (or originally barley) and rose water or orange-flower water” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled O-R-G-E-A-T and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 55 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of orgeat is orgeats.
What does orgeat mean?
noun
- 1
A sweet syrup made from sugar and almonds (or originally barley) and rose water or orange-flower water.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce orgeat?
- US /ˈɔrʒɑːt/
- US /ɔrˈʒɑː/
- UK /ˈɔːdʒɪət/
Orgeat has 2 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of orgeat
- orgeats plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is orgeat?
Orgeat appears about once in every 55 million words in written English, the 231,291st 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 orgeat come from?
From French orgeat, derived from orge (“barley”), from Latin hordeum. Doublet of horchata and orzo. Cognate to Surinamese Dutch orgeade.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).