vadai
/ˈvɑːdaɪ/noun
vadai is a noun meaning “A type of fritter made from lentils or gram flour” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-A-D-A-I, and it appears about once in every 81 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of vadai is vadais.
What does vadai mean?
noun
- 1
A type of fritter made from lentils or gram flour.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce vadai?
- /ˈvɑːdaɪ/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of vadai
- vadais plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is vadai?
Vadai appears about once in every 81 million words in written English, the 286,585th 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 vadai come from?
Borrowed from Tamil வடை (vaṭai). Compare cognates Hindi वड़ा (vaṛā) and Malayalam വട (vaṭa).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).