vichyssoise
/ˌvɪʃiˈswɑːz/noun
vichyssoise is a noun meaning “A thick, creamy soup made from potato, leeks, onions, and chicken stock, and normally served cold” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-I-C-H-Y-S-S-O-I-S-E and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 45 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of vichyssoise is vichyssoises.
What does vichyssoise mean?
noun
- 1
A thick, creamy soup made from potato, leeks, onions, and chicken stock, and normally served cold.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce vichyssoise?
- /ˌvɪʃiˈswɑːz/
Vichyssoise has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-US-Vichyssoise.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-vichyssoise.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of vichyssoise
- vichyssoises plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is vichyssoise?
Vichyssoise appears about once in every 45 million words in written English, the 206,808th 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 vichyssoise come from?
From French vichyssoise (literally “from Vichy”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).