velouté
/vəluˈteɪ/noun
velouté is a noun meaning “A mother sauce in French cuisine, consisting of a light stock thickened with a blond roux” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-E-L-O-U-T-É, and it appears about once in every 48 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of velouté is veloutés.
What does velouté mean?
noun
- 1
A mother sauce in French cuisine, consisting of a light stock thickened with a blond roux.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce velouté?
- US /vəluˈteɪ/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of velouté
- veloutés plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is velouté?
Velouté 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 velouté come from?
Borrowed from French velouté (“velvety, smooth”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).