Triscuit
/ˈtɹɪskɪt/noun
Triscuit is a noun meaning “A kind of wholewheat cracker” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-R-I-S-C-U-I-T, and it appears about once in every 48 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of Triscuit is Triscuits.
What does Triscuit mean?
noun
- 1
CanadaUSA kind of wholewheat cracker.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce Triscuit?
- /ˈtɹɪskɪt/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of Triscuit
- Triscuits plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is Triscuit?
Triscuit 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 Triscuit come from?
Marketing coinage, said to be from electricity and biscuit, though historical evidence is lacking; sources from around the time of its introduction interpreted the name to mean "thrice-cooked" (from tris-), like biscuit is ultimately from bis (“twice”) cuit (“cooked, baked”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).