rijsttafel

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The English entry for rijsttafel is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈɹaɪsˌtɑːfəl/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "A large meal originating in colonial Indonesia composed of many different dishes with rice as the main ingredient; several side-dishes such as krupuk, acar and serundeng are served.".

No misspelling variants are generated for rijsttafel 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.

Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Dutch rijsttafel (“rice table”). Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is rijsttafel, spelled R-I-J-S-T-T-A-F-E-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.