enchiladas
Sayen-chi-LAH-duhz/ˌɛn.t͡ʃɪˈlɑ.dəz/
- 1Plural of enchilada.
She rolled a dozen enchiladas and topped them with red sauce.
The restaurant's cheese enchiladas are the most popular item on the menu.
Note
A borrowed dish name that takes the ordinary English plural: add -s and nothing changes. The singular comes from Mexican Spanish, where it is the feminine past participle of enchilar, "to season with chili." When the filling is named, it goes in front and stays singular: cheese enchiladas, chicken enchiladas, never cheeses enchiladas.
enchiladas is a form of enchilada
enchilada, noun: A Mexican dish consisting of a tortilla wrapped around a filling and baked in a sauce. Full entry
- Forms
- enchiladaenchiladas plural
- Spelling
- enchilada → enchiladas: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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